Teach Your Own: A Seminar About Homeschooling and Unschooling

I’m trying to gauge interest for bringing my latest workshop about homeschooling and unschooling to Portland, ME.

If 10 or more people contact me via email (pfarenga at comcast.net) by October 3 or sooner with interest, my friend Beth Della Torre Callahan will find me a space to do the seminar and I’ll send out registration materials to all who contacted me with interest.

Proposed Location: Portland, ME

Proposed Date: Saturday, Nov. 3, from 9AM to 1PM.

For detailed information about the seminar, and to read testimonials by people who attended the most recent one, click here.

The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same

I recently transferred this video interview with me about homeschooling and unschooling that I did for Christian Science Monitor television in 1991. It is almost exactly 20 years ago to the day (2/16/1991) when I filmed it, but since so much of the information is still relevant I thought it would be of interest. I'm struck by how in those 20 years we went from the estimated 500,000 homeschooled children in 1991 to nearly 2 million today, and yet we are still being asked the same questions, particularly "How will homeschooled children be socialized?" What I like about this interview is how thoughtful and prepared John Parrott, the interviewer, was. He handled the socialization question differently than I expected and I was pleasantly surprised.

The Unschooling Channel

Dr. Carlo Ricci, an education professor at Nipissing University in Canada and the founder of the Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, interviewed myself, John Gatto, and many other speakers at the  Alternative Education Resource Organization conference in June, 2010. He asked us all the same questions about unschooling and the variety of responses is interesting. You can view my interview below; to view the others, and I urge you to do so, visit Dr. Ricci's Unschooling Channel on YouTube.