UNEXPECTED PATH TO FREE RANGE LEARNING

Abstract

This is a condensed version of an interview with Laura Grace Weldon, author of Free Range Learning: How Homeschooling Changes Everything, by Rebecca Bohnman on The Luminous Mind podcast. Weldon discusses her family’s shift from schooling to homeschooling tounschooling. She also describes using research to shake off a conventional school mindset, the benefits of diversity in homeschooling/unschooling groups, recognizing knowledge networks, and more.

Keywords

• knowledge networks
• instruction vs. discovery
• free range learning
• learning differences