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Changing Our Minds
- How Children Can Take Control of Their Own Learning
- Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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Children are born full of curiosity, eager to participate in the world. They learn as they live, with enthusiasm and joy. Then we send them to school. We stop them from playing and actively exploring their interests, telling them it's more important to sit still and listen. The result is that for many children, their motivation to learn drops dramatically. The joy of the early years is replaced with apathy and anxiety.
This is not inevitable. We are socialised to believe that schooling is synonymous with education, but it's only one approach. Self-directed education puts the child back in control of their learning. This enables children, including those diagnosed with special educational needs, to flourish in their own time and on their own terms. It enables us to put wellbeing at the centre of education.
Changing Our Minds brings together research, theory and practice on learning. It includes interviews with influential thinkers in the field of self-directed education and examples from families alongside practical advice. This essential guide will give you an understanding of why self-directed education makes sense, how it works, and what to do to put it into action yourself.
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- B Wardman
- 26-01-24
Totally won over
I've been unhappy with the education system for a while and this book has totally sealed the deal for me. My daughter has dyslexia and dyscalculia and has always been made to feel lesser than her peers. She describes herself as 'stupid' which Is devastating. I'm so pleased to have found a book that confirms everything I believe about the education system.
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- Amazon Customer
- 15-01-23
I wish I had read this before my children started school! Life changing read.
This book has opened up the reality of how school can be a harmful place for children and in turn parents as it made us all miserable. it also explained my experience as a child and why the anxiety carried forward into adulthood. This book has laid to rest the need to make children go to school to learn and that this is the only way they will and I thank the author for giving me guidance as to why I should absolutely unschool my children who have never thrived in the mainstream setting. I am now very hopefully that our family can live a better way of life with more joy and freedom without the control of the system.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has children in the school setting to read this, it’s given me the confidence to know how to best serve them for their futures and to take the plunge in the right way and not try to recreate school at home.
Within a week of reading this book my kids are showing me what they want to learn and how. I’m seeing their learning in a totally different way and they already seem so much happier and engaged in what they are doing and we are all less anxious. I’m now looking forward to the future without the fear of failure that has crippled us in the past.
Here’s to a new way which serves the whole family.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-01-23
A compelling case for self-directed learning
We have been home educating for a number of years but Dr Fisher’s book helped us further understand the importance of self direction and the places where we, as schooled adults, could adjust our thinking to slow our children more autonomy both in their learning and their every day lives.
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- EmmaM
- 20-02-23
For many, schools are not fit for purpose
I want to proselytise the ideas in this book as a real option for those of us whose children cannot be in school.
The book is soundly argued and makes a convincing case for the “unschooling” movement. However, even for those not in a position to allow their children to educate themselves entirely, the book shows why mainstream school is a very toxic, ineffective place to become educated. It takes the blinkers from parents’ eyes and will prompt better alternatives to be sought, required and provided.
The question ought not to be, “why are so many of our youngsters suffering with poor mental health?” but, “why are so many not …?”
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- Alžběta
- 15-06-23
Fascinating and inspiring.
A wonderful and inspiring book for all parents - not only those interested in home education or unschooling.
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- Anonymous User
- 17-01-23
Essential reading for everyone!
A must read/listen for everyone who's ever been in school. This book blows the whole school paradigm out of the water! Well written, researched and laid out. If you've ever been a child or have a child please read this book!
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- Miss
- 07-09-23
Everyone needs to listen to this
Loved listening to this book. It was backed up by lots of scientific evidence, anecdotal stories and examples of different options.
Research based and child centred. Loved it. Thank you .
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- bryan david
- 01-10-23
Brilliant book every parent needs to read
I so wish I had found this much earlier in my parenting journey. There is another way other than breaking children's will to fit a system that is leaving behind scarred kids and mental health issues year after year. Very empowering and knowledgeable.
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- Kirsty
- 14-02-23
An absolute must read!
I don’t have the words to express how profound and relevant this book is to our lives!
I have 2 children who refused school and home education since the first lockdown. I have spent nearly 3 years, fighting them and the system for some sort of education, when the reality is, while I have been doing this, they have been educating themselves on their own interests all along!
I too failed at school, but returned to education later in life. Most of my knowledge has been self directed so why couldn’t I see what was staring me in the face? Structured learning wasn’t for me, nor is it suitable for my sons.
Thank you, Dr Naomi Fisher, for helping me put all this into perspective! You are an Angel!
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- Amazon Customer
- 19-05-23
This changed my mind and I've never been happier!
As a father of two young children, I read this book and immediately changed my behaviour towards them. My 4 and 7 year old daughters, their mother and me have never been happier. I hope other children and their families can also be liberated in this way. Clear and logical points based on scientific evidence and psychological understanding that makes complete sense to me both rationally and intuitively. What I did not expect is the power this would have in transforming my life and enabling me to release trauma I had been completely unaware I was not only carrying but inadvertently passing onto my children. Please read or listen, and it might just transform the world!
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