By Heart: A Mother's Story of Children and Learning at Home

by Kathleen Melin

Overview

"By Heart" shares one family's surprising passage from public school to home-based learning--a journey that takes readers from Bethel, Alaska, to a Wisconsin farm, all the while exploring an educational choice that continues to grow at a phenomenal rate.

Parenting, place, education, and culture mingle in this literary narrative. Each chapter examines common issues such as the home school decision, schedules and curricula, socialization, and the economics of co-parenting.

Entertaining, inspiring, and empowering, this is a delightful and provocative book for parents, educators, policy makers, and readers of memoir.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157348427
Publisher:	Clover Valley Press, LLC
Publication date:	04/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	454 KB

About the Author

Kathleen Melin writes about home schooling based on more than twelve continuous years of teaching her children at home. In addition to her experience as a parent-educator, she has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and at an arts-based charter school.

Her creative work has appeared in "Dust and Fire," "Feminist Parenting," and "A Woman's Place." She was a contributor to Eric Utne’s "Cosmo Doogood’s Urban Almanac" and a senior writer for "The Twin Cities Family Fun Guide."

Editorial Reviews

By Heart "is literature first, a home schooling book second."

Jeanne Faulconer

This is the flow of Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda mixed with Balzac and Tolstoy.

Mary Rehwald

I wasn't home schooled; none of my people were home schooled; my wife wasn't home schooled; none of her people were home schooled. School taught us that rearing children on our own would be a bother, and so our daughter and son missed out, too. Looking through the window that 'By Heart' opens, I'm struck by how much all of us lost. This book is a work of genius. Unique.

John Taylor Gatto