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Books on Education by John Holt
 The
Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (Book & CD-ROM)
by Seymour Papert - The author wrote this book "for parents and teachers (and
kids!) who are interested in the profound changes in learning brought about by
the explosion of computers in the home."
In simple language that cuts through computer-speak and technical hype, The
Connected Family" answers fundamental questions about computers for
concerned parents, including how best to use the Internet and the World Wide
Web, what to do about cyberporn, what to look for when buying computer
equipment, CD-ROMs and computer games, and how to keep up with their children's
progress.
Hardcover, 223 pages. Accompanied by a companion CD-ROM. Mac and Windows 3.1/95
compatible. Copyright 1996.
#3353 $22.95 $16.99
Save over 25%! One copy available.
Seymour Papert is a mathematician and
one of the early pioneers of Artificial Intelligence. He is internationally
recognized as the seminal thinker about ways in which computers can change
learning. Papert pursued mathematical research at Cambridge University, and he
worked with Jean Piaget. It was this collaboration with Piaget that led Papert
to consider using mathematics in the service of understanding how children learn
and think. Dr. Papert is the inventor of the Logo Computer Language, the first
effort to give children control over new technology.
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Everyone is Able: Exploding the Myth of
Learning Disabilities - Susannah Sheffer, ed. True stories from parents
and LD specialists make us challenge our prevailing ideas about L.D. and offer
alternative ways for helping people learn. Includes a section on LD jargon
commonly used in school and what it truly means.
This booklet is a collection of stories, some of which were published in Growing
Without Schooling Magazine and others that were written just for this
publication. The focus is limited to "perceptual difficulties and exceptions to
the accepted developmental timetable which the learning disability now covers."
Booklet, 15 pages.
#268JH $4.95
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How to Stock a Home Library Inexpensively, 3rd edition by Jane A.
Williams is a convenient guide that includes an appendix of book resource
guides, author's recommendations of books and resources to include in a home
library, a separate directory of resources for buying books conveniently and
inexpensively.
Paper, 96 pages. 11"x8.5"x.5".
#7185 $14.95 $13.45
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In Their
Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your
Child's Multiple Intelligences
by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D. As a learning
specialist, Dr. Armstrong has come across many children who have been labeled as
underachievers or learning disabled. With this book "he shows that in most cases
these children are individuals with distinct learning styles (linguistic,
spatial,
interpersonal, etc.) and explains how to help them acquire knowledge according to these
sometimes extraordinary aptitudes."
Paper, 288 pages.
#0514X $14.95 $13.99
 The Lives of
Children by George Dennison is the deeply inspiring story of the First
Street School, where twenty-three children, black, white, and Puerto Rican, all
from poor families, and many with severe learning and behavior problems, came
together with five teachers who believed that "the business of a school is not,
or should be, mere instruction, but the life of the child."
It includes a 13 page
introduction by John Holt in which he
writes: "This book must be seen also as a destroyer of alibis and excuses. We
cannot say any longer that we do not know why we are failing, or that we do not
know what can be done instead, or that we cannot afford to do it. If we go on
failing much longer, stunting and wrecking as we have the lives and spirits of
millions of children, it can only be because for peculiar and dreadful reasons
of our own that is what we really want to do."
Part of the Classics in Child
Development series. Paper, 309 pages. Limited quantities.
#4831 $19.50 $15.99
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 Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas by Seymore Papert -
Mindstorms has two central themes: that children can learn to use computers
in a masterful way and that learning to use computers can change the way they
learn everything else. Even outside the classroom, Papert had a vision that the
computer could be used just as casually and as personally for a diversity of
purposes throughout a person’s entire life. Seymour Papert makes the point that
in classrooms saturated with technology there is actually more socialization and
that the technology often contributes to greater interaction among students and
among students and instructors.
Paper, 248 pages. 1980 edition. One copy available.
#6746 $13.00
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Raising Your Spirited Child,
revised edition by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. Learn new ways of
viewing your intense, perceptive, sensitive and persistent child. The author
describes each trait and ways of coping with them. Help your child accept their
one-of-a-kind personality, and learn how to give them the skills to work with
their temperament to get along in the world. My friends who have "spirited"
children recommend this book.
This is the new, updated version, with the most up-to-date research.
Paper, 480 pages.
#9669 $14.95 $13.45
Older Edition (1998) of Raising Your Spirited Child by Mary Sheedy
Kurcinka - Cover has a scratch.
Paper, 314 pages.
#3288 $13.00 $7.99
(One copy available).
 Shy Child: Helping Children Triumph Over Shyness - Ward K.
Swallow, Ph.D. - Statistics show that 20% of children are born shy, and another
20% develop shyness. Parents who are shy themselves feel great compassion for
their shy children but tend to contribute to the problem by shielding their
child from difficult situations. Conversely, parents who are not shy are
similarly at a loss and feel exasperated and baffled by their child's shyness.
Dr. Ward Swallow addresses both of those situations.
Paper, 288 pages.
#4997 $13.95
(One copy available).
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 Smart Play:101 Fun, Easy Games that
Enhance Intelligence by Barbara Sher - Developed by a
play-therapist, this collection of 101 easy-to-follow games helps children use
their bodies to master essential mental skills and concepts. You and your family
can play virtually anywhere, with any number of participants, and without
special preparation or equipment.
Special sections highlight: encouraging movement and thinking, improving motor
and social skills, enhancing language and math skills, fostering parent-child
interaction, building on children's love of fantasy, action, and rhythm.
#6735 $14.95 $11.99
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How Children Fail by John Holt -
First published in 1964, this book has helped many parents and teachers over the
years understand what actually happens in the classroom.
John Holt was a keen
and astute observer of children, with a passionate conviction that our children
deserve much better. His writing is very clear and accessible, and makes so
much sense.
Paper, 298 pages.
#4021X $16.95 $11.99
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How
Children Learn by John Holt -
John Holt opens our eyes to the amazing ways pre-school children learn so many
things. His writing is clear, concrete, down to earth and based on his
observations of children and how they learn from what interests them.
What I
like about John Holt's writing is his constant curiosity about learning. It will
get you thinking about both your child's learning and your own.
Paper, 320 pages
#4048 $16.00 $11.20
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 Learning
All the Time: How Small Children Begin To Read, Write, Count, and Investigate
the World, Without Being Taught by
John Holt. John was working on this book before his death, and it was
completed using his articles in Growing Without Schooling and other
previously uncollected writing. As with all of his books, this work exhibits the
great respect he had for children and insights into how they learn.John
explores how children learn and think and demonstrates that children can and do pick up
"the basics" (reading, writing, math) from the world around them. I find many of his ideas very
practical, not just theoretical, and every so often I pick up and skim this book
to help remind me that my children are, indeed, learning all the time. Paper,
169 pages.
#0911
$15.00 $12.99
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