Unschooling School

Maureen Downey: Unschooling school

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:03 AM PDT

New Hampshire Public Radio article, April 29

The New Trend in Homeschooling: Un-Schooling.
By Sheryl Rich-Kern on Tuesday, April 19, 2011

You can listen to the article or read the transcript here:
http://www.nhpr.org/new-trend-homeschooling-un-schooling

in Spain: El 2º Festival Internacional de Homeschoolers

El 2º Festival Internacional de Homeschoolers se llevará a cabo los próximos 20, 21, 22, 23 y 24 de abril en "La Chopera", Ugena, Toledo.
Ugena, Toledo, Spain

El 2º Festival Internacional de Homeschoolers se llevará a cabo los próximos 20, 21, 22, 23 y 24 de abril en "La Chopera", Ugena, Toledo.
http://fihoo.org/
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Deseamos que el sábado, 23 de abril, por la tarde, nuestros niños puedan disfrutar su propio "Talent show" dentro del programa de actividades del Fihoo 11. Para ello os poroponemos que en cada casa preparéis alguna actuación, para que cada niño muestre alguno de sus talentos, desde trucos de magia, baile, teatro, malabares, música, demostración científica, recitación, lectura, etc.

Cuando sepáis que van a mostrar vuestros hijos, mandadnos un mail a info@epysteme.org para que podamos organizar todo. El ensayo general lo realizaremos el mismo sábado por la mañana en el escenario de "La Chopera".


Para más información:

secretaria@epysteme.org

News from India

I have a note from Urmila Samson. So that no one else has to google anything, I've hotlinked it.\

The conference Hema mentioned was at Deer Park Institute, Bir, Himachal Pradesh. You may want to google that. It's up in the mountains, with snow caps as a back drop. Some brave folks went para gliding. There were numerous monastries (I didn't realize we have so many Tibetans studying years and years in the style of ancient Indian universities like Nalanda University started in way back BC). You may find Shikshantar worth googling too. They have an unschooling attitude to Development issues, and have started Swaraj University which is an unschooly college. Another fellow associated with them named Claude Alvares, is putting together a Multiversity, which is a sort of unschooly university. All these people are worth meeting on your next visit to India. Grown unschoolers from the US usually find them and then find us through them! This was an 'un conference' around the themes: Compassion, Courage, Contemplation and Creativity. The Prime Minister of Tibet in exile, Prof. Rinpoche himself addressed us on the 5th and last day. There was meeting of head and heart, community cooking, stuff for children to do and places to visit. Multi generational, multi cultural, multi socio economic...A guy from Egypt who lived on the street overlooking the recent action...You'd have enjoyed being there!

Love

Urmila

AN ADDITION, forwarded by Urmila, who wrote "Here's a link that describes it more clearly. I think Tana and Warren come from Canada. Hello everyone, Here is a blog post that Rennie and I wrote for Organization Unbound on our experience of the Learning Societies gathering: http://organizationunbound.org/expressive-change/the-un-conference/ We'd love to hear your thoughts, insights... Cheers from Chandigarh, Tana'

This is a video of Claude Alvares from another conference:

The paper to which he refers is (I think) this: Launching the Multiversity

More information in French

Je vis donc j’apprends – Une vie unschooling, a translation by Claire Rakotonimaro in France, of Pam Sorooshian's I LIVE THEREFORE I LEARN: Living an Unschooling Life."

From Quebec, Journal JOSE La Vie ! has several posts on unschooling.

Some other translations are saved or linked here:
http://sandradodd.com/french