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Why Take the Risk? Beverley Paine Most people think that at best schools educate and socialise children and at worst cause discomfort and bad memories for others... This is not the case. As Linda Dobson so aptly puts in on her Parent At the Helm blog,
In her article Schooling Causes Psychic Damage Lasting Into Adulthood Linda highlights the findings by Dr. Kirsten Olson, author of Wounded by School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing up to Old School Culture, an educational researcher, activist, consultant, and writer deeply concerned about children, learning, and the conditions of schools. Dr Olson identified lasting major pyschological wounds resulting from people's experiences as school students. Home educating parent, Bob Collier, produces an excellent monthly e-newsletter called Parental Intelligence which pulls together interesting and compelling articles written by parents, educators and health profressionals. There is something in this e-newsletter for everyone, from new parents contemplating the birth of their first child, or their child's first steps towards preschool or school, to those desperately seeking alternatives from an education system that is damaging their children's chances of happiness, both now and in the future. The articles are thought provoking and hopefully will help to bring about a paradigm shift in how adults view the first 20 years of life and begin to take them much more seriously. Another regular blog I visit is that of veteran life long learning campaigner Wendy Priesnitz. From here it is short jump and click to the rest of Wendy's important work on promoting human and planet friendly ways of rearing and educating children.
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia, Beverley and Robin Paine are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families. They began homeschooling their children in 1986 and three years later started the South Australian Home Based Learners network.
Beverley wrote Getting Started with Homeschooling in 1995-97 and since then continues to write books and booklets on home education. She balances spending time helping home educators with working in her garden and renovating her home, as well as continuing to build her collection of writing on a variety of homeschooling subjects. Beverley maintains an extensive collection of websites as well as several Yahoo groups supporting families teaching their children at home.
In 2007 Beverley joined the HEA and was a committee member for three years during which time she edited and produced the HEA Newsletter, Stepping Stones for Home Educators magazine, annual Resource Directory and other HEA publications.
If you'd like to keep in touch with what Beverley is up to her in her life, sign up for the Homeschool Australia Newsletter or visit her Homeschool Australia Facebook page.nor do they endorse or recommend products (other than their own) listed in contributed articles, pages, or advertisements.