Ticket to Nashville

Posted on September 30, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

Ever since Amrita discovered Miley Ray Cyrus, Taylor Swift’s (eventually a host other musicians)  music at age 12, she was hooked on country music. She started learning the guitar (daddy taught her the only 3 chords that he knew – the rest, she figured them out herself with the help of YouTube!).  She spent hours in [...]

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A to Z of Homeschooling: N is for Natural Learning

Posted on September 24, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

What is natural learning? It is learning that comes naturally to the child. Natural learning is learning that is self-motivated …, it has to be interest-driven

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“Unschooling” is a viable option for Univ. students

Posted on September 14, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

This is an interesting piece – helps understands and opens our mind to approaches to college and higher education. We urge parents to rethink education and learning.

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A – Z of Homeschooling: M is for movies, magic and music.

Posted on September 6, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

M is for movies, magic and music. Our kids are movie buffs, thanks to their dad.

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Teach students, not subjects

Posted on August 25, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

Learning Beyond Schooling to us is not just getting out of the school building. It is about taking a totally different mindset to a shift in paradigm. Learning beyond schooling is a process (learning process even) to redefine the whole concept of education and learning in relation to our children and their environment.  Sir Ken [...]

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How Do We Prepare Our Children for What’s Next?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

    One of the recurring themes of our talks and postings is preparing for the future – education is not just about getting a job for our children. It is preparing our kids for a future we cannot even predict. How can this be done? Well, Tina Barseghian offers a perspective. When most of us [...]

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What did Harry Potter learn at Hogwarts?

Posted on August 23, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

This afternoon our son came up to us and declared that he wanted to go study at Hogwarts. Our answer was, “why not?” There are so many thing to learn. When we read this article, we were amazed – so, we might just give up homeschooling and enroll him into Hogwarts. Here’s some learning opportuities [...]

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Making the Home a Positive Education Environment (Dr Latif Kamaluddin, 2000)

Posted on August 9, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

This was a paper presented the FamilyPlace Education Forum held on July 29, 2000 by Dr Latif Kamaluddin (Reported by Lydia Teh) *We hope you find this useful and insightful coming from a parent and educationist. KVWL I don’t have any solutions or recipes for you. But what might help is to look at two things. [...]

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Smiling School-blues Away (Wai Leng, 2001)

Posted on August 8, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

  Continuing our series of previously published articles on FAMILYPLACE, might be useful to some. FamilyPlace (a project funded by DAGS) was the predecessor of  Learning Beyond Schooling when our children were very young and reflected our thoughts as young(er parents).   The long and wonderful holiday has just ended and more than 500,000 Year [...]

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PARENT-INITIATED PLAYGROUPS (Chong Wai Leng, 2000)

Posted on August 8, 2011 by LearningBeyondSchooling

  Continuing our previously published articles on FAMILYPLACE (a project funded by DAGS), might be useful to some. FamilyPlace was the predecessor of  Learning Beyond Schooling when our children were very young and reflected our thoughts as young(er parents). This article was a workshop paper delivered at the OMEP’s Asia & The Pacific Seminar & [...]

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