By Heart: A Mother's Story of Children
and Learning at Home
by Kathleen Melin
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, as each compelling chapter delves into issues such as the home school decision, schedules and curricula, socialization, and the economics of co-parenting.
By Heart supports a child-centered approach to learning balanced within community. Entertaining, inspiring, and empowering, it is a delightful and provocative book for parents, educators, policy makers, and readers of memoir.
Read Reviews:
Listen to Author Interview:
Interview by Jim Oliver on Spectrum West, Wisconsin Public Radio
[88.3 WHWC, Eau Claire region], on Thursday, December 11, 2008.
By Heart: A Mother's Story of Children and Learning at Home
$14.95 © 2008
160 pages, paperback
ISBN 978-0-9794883-3-7
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