There is a long list of wonderful and inspiring books to be found on home education. Please find below recommendations of some of our favourite books to get you started!
Educating Children at Home by Alan Thomas.
This is an eye-opening book on Home Education documenting an study of how 100 HE families function.
Educating Your Child at Home by Jane Lowe & Alan Thomas.
Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves by Alison McKee.
The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn.
The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook by Dr. Raymond & Dorothy Moore
How Children Learn, How Children Fail, Teach Your Own, The Underachieving School, Instead of Education by John Holt.
The author is the ‘father’ of the Unschooling movement and method. His books are highly inspiring and very popular for today’s home-educating parents.
The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith.
Awakening your Child’s Natural Genius by Thomas Armstrong.
Educating the Whole Hearted Child by Clay and Sally Clarkson.
This book is probably the most successful one there is based in the Eclectic approach.
Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery by David H. Albert.
A wonderful author in HE. His website is well-worth looking at www.skylarksings.com
Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling by Mary Pride.
With more than 600 pages in the subject, this can be considerer the ‘phone-book’ of HE. Among others, it has a detailed explanation in the most popular approaches and is full of resources. The author is the publisher of Practical Homeschooling Magazine and founder of the world’s most visited homeschool website, www.home-school.com
Fundamentals of Home-schooling. Notes on a Successful Family Living by Ann Lahrson-Fisher.
Homeschooling the Early Years, The Homeschooling Book of Answers by Linda Dobson.
The Original Home Schooling Series by Charlotte Mason.
The classic reference by the founder of the home schooling movement.
A series of 6 volumes in:
- Home Education: Training and educating children under nine.
- Parents and children: The role of the parent in the education of the child.
- School Education: Developing a curriculum.
- Ourselves: Improving character and conscience.
- Formation of Character: Shaping the child’s personality
- A Philosophy of Education: Curiosity – the path to creative learning.
A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on The Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola.
Other books based on The Charlotte Mason philosophy are:
For The Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
When Children Love to Learn by Elaine Cooper
For the Love of Learning by Jenny Sockey (a mixture of CM and Classical Education).
The Well-Trained Mind, A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise. There is a website too, www.welltrainedmind.com
The Theory of Multiple Intelligences by Howard Gardner.