Written by Sloane Mak June 24th saw Penang hosting KV and Wai Leng to give a talk on “Learning Beyond Schooling”. The dialogue started at 7pm with half a dozen people and more arrived over the hour. After attending the dialogue in KL last year, I felt there was a need for Family Place’s message [...]
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Our session in Ipoh was organized by Kelab Bakti Gunung Keledang and hosted by husband and wife team, Harith and Intan who homeschool their son. Beforethe talk, it was lamented by some that there were no homeschooling support group in Ipoh. (Harith welcoming the audience)
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Homeschooling is featured on China Press on 12th May 2008 – perhaps for the first time in a Chinese newspaper. This is a well-written piece, depicting a positive picture of learning from home (and the pictures are well angled too!). Unlike the earlier piece on an English newspaper, this piece was conceptualized and brought to [...]
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Some comments and clarification on “The Downside of Homeschooling” from the article “Homeschooling: Is it for you?” written by Elizabeth Brown in the Mother & Baby magazine (December 2002) issue. We would like to commend the writer for her informative piece on homeschooling in Malaysia. However, we would like to present our views on some [...]
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This conference for home educators, one of the biggest in the US, was an eye-opener for us. With about 1,000 participants from all over America, our family attracted much attention from the speakers who were fascinated by the fact that we had traveled all the way from Malaysia (they do know where it is) just [...]
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This was one of our early dialogue sessions that kicked off the interest in homeschooling held back in MAY 12, 2001 at our tiny apartment in Subang Jaya. Will be interested for those who might want some simple questions answered – K V There was an air of great anticipation as people started to stream [...]
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This article appeared in 2001, might be interesting to have some historical sense of homeschooling here. Home-school gains ground By Sharon Nelson Posted from New Straits Times (Malaysia) Source: http://www.nstpi.com.my/z/Current_News/NST/Tuesday/Features/20010213084601/pp_index_html FOR most children, going to school involves catching a bus or riding in a car. But for a growing number of students in Malaysia, getting [...]
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Our family appearing in May 11,2008′s NST (picture source NST) in the article on homeschooling. (picture source by www.NST.com.my) If you did not picked up today’s NST (May 11, 2008), there is feature on homeschooling.
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Tiada tekanan belajar di rumah Kanak-kanak ini tidak pernah menjejakkan kaki ke sekolah, namun mereka juga mempunyai pencapaian setaraf dengan kanak-kanak lain yang ke sekolah. Bagaimana? Mereka seperti kanak-kanak biasa. Suka bermain, bergaduh dan membuat hal-hal yang boleh menimbulkan rasa ingin tahu. Sikap mencuba dan kehendak untuk mempelajari sesuatu kemahiran dalam keselesaan sendiri, membuka ruang [...]
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Educating our children: a privilege or a right?
In response to a homeschooling story that came out on Sunday Times (May 11,2008). The first piece by Nurin, Homeschool: In the comfort of their home, was okay about how we homeschool pretty positive. Then came the not so positive part, Homeschooling: More Patient and Less Competitive - the same old “socialization” issue! Blah blah. [...]
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