Maybe you’re new to the world of unschooling – welcome my lovely, you’re in for a treat 🙂
Or maybe you’ve been here a while.
Whatever your situation, if you want to find out more about unschooling then this post is for you.
Following on from my 3-part series on What is unschooling? (find Part 1 here)
Today, I’m answering the question I’m sure you’ve been asking 😉
Where can I find out more about unschooling?
When I searched unschooling in a popular search engine this morning it offered me over 7 million hits. Now, that’s a lot of information to plough through.
Let me help you narrow that down.
This post is jam-packed with tons of my favourite unschooling resources. Some of the most gorgeous voices in the unschool space, specially selected to help you find out more about unschooling.
Grab a cuppa, sit back and enjoy 🙂
Some of the links included in this post are affiliate links, meaning if you click through and decide to buy I may earn a small commission from the sale, at no extra cost to you. I am super picky about the links on my site and only share resources I believe will bring value to your life, most of which I personally use and love. Thanks in advance if you follow any of my links, I hope you find them helpful. Full disclosure policy here.
Blogs and websites
Find all my unschooling posts here
Stories of an Unschooling Family – Sue Elvis
Ever Learning – Erin Rosemond
Lulastic and the Hippyshake – Lucy AitkenRead
The Path Less Taken – Jen McGrail
Living Joyfully – Pam Laricchia
Sandra Dodd’s Unschooling website and daily dose of email inspiration
Joyfully Rejoycing – Joyce Fetteroll
Unschooling Mom2Mom – Sue Patterson
Growing Without Schooling – John Holt/Pat Farenga
Let ’em Go Barefoot – Missy Willis
Sacraparental – Thalia Kehoe Rowden
Raising Free People – Akilah S. Richards
Untigering – Iris Chen
I’m Unschooled. Yes, I can write – Idzie Desmarais
Shine with Unschooling – Anne Ohman
A Place on a Hill – Esther Jones
Live. Play. Learn – Heidi Steel
Peter Gray at Psychology Today
The Alliance for Self-directed Education
The Beginners Guide to Unschooling – Leo Babauta
The HE Byte (commenting on the UK EHE political scene)
Unschooled : A Heuristic Study – Bekkie Graham
Books
Natural Learning and Unschooling books at the takingakinderpath bookshop
Curious Unschoolers – Sue Elvis (read my review here)
Radical Unschool Love – Sue Elvis
The Big Book of Unschooling – Sandra Dodd
Unschooled : Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom – Kerry McDonald
Raising Free People : Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work – Akilah S. Richards
The Unschooling Journey : A field guide – Pam Laricchia
Free to Learn: Five Ideas for a Joyful Unschooling Life – Pam Laricchia
Free to Live: Create a Thriving Unschooling Home – Pam Laricchia
Life through the Lens of Unschooling: A Living Joyfully Companion – Pam Laricchia
What is Unschooling?: Living and Learning without School – Pam Laricchia
Teach Your Own : The Indispensable Guide to Living and Learning with Children at Home – John Holt
Learning all the time – John Holt
The Teenage Liberation Handbook : How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education – Grace Llewellyn
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier… – Peter Gray
Moving a Puddle, and Other Essays – Sandra Dodd
How Children Learn – John Holt
How Children Fail – John Holt
Instead of Education : Ways to Help People Do Things Better – John Holt
Natural Born Learners: Unschooling And Autonomy In Education – Edited by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko and Carlo Ricci
The Unschooling Unmanual: Nurturing Children’s Natural Love of Learning -Edited by Jan and Jason Hunt
Unschooling Dads: Twenty-two Testimonials on Their Unconventional Approach to Education – Edited by Skyler J. Collins
Deschooling Society – Ivan Illich
Dumbing Us Down : The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling – John Taylor Gatto
How Children Acquire “Academic” Skills Without Formal Instruction – Peter Gray
The Harm of Coercive Schooling – Peter Gray
Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School – Grace Llewellyn
The Unschooling Handbook – Mary Griffith
Unschooling: A Revolutionary Education During COVID-19 and Beyond – Sheila Baranoski
Dear Grandma: Your Grandkids Are Unschoolers – Sheila Baranoski
How to Talk so Kids can Learn at Home and in School – Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Podcasts
10 Home ed and Unschooling podcasts I love 🙂 includes these beauties –
Exploring Unschooling – Pam Laricchia
Stories of an unschooling family – Sue Elvis
Sage Family Podcast – Rachel Rainbolt
Honey I’m Homeschooling the Kids – Robyn Robertson
The Parenting Junkie – Avital Schreiber
Fare of the Free Child – Akilah S. Richards
Revillaging – Adele Jarrett-Kerr
The Unschooling Life – Amy Childs
Brave Writer – Julie Bogart
Read Aloud Revival – Sarah Mackenzie
Some more fab podcasts I’ve found since writing that post –
Let ’em go Barefoot – Missy Willis
Life Without School – Stark Raving Dad
Rogue Learner – Jenna Reich
The Unschool Space – Esther Jones
Unschooling Conversations – Heidi Steel
Video and Film
Lucy at Life Without School and Lulastic Hippyshake
Living Joyfully with Unschooling
Akilah RaisingFreePeople Richards
Alliance for Self-Directed Education
Do schools kill creativity? – Ken Robinson
Schooling the World – Carol Black
Class Dismissed – The Movie (read a review here)
You can also find more unschooling goodness @takingakinderpath on Instagram and Pinterest.
Let me know your favourites from this list and what I’m missing in the comments below 🙂
Look out for more updates to this post coming soon x