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Books available for Loan or Sale
I would like to build up a Home Education library that is available for HEN members.
As an aid to this I (Kim Pierce) are offering our own books on home education and
education as part of this library. Some of these books are either out of print or difficult
to get hold of so please look after them.
If anyone has books they can recommend we will try and get them. Also if anyone is
willing to donate books they have read, that would be very much appreciated. Books
can be sent to the address given below.
In the next while I will try and write a sentence or two describing each book. Most can
be found on the web with a good description. So I would suggest if you are not sure
about whether you would be interested then check for the description in Google.
There are 27 books available to loan. Books marked in orange * are available to buy.
Please, send an e-mail to our Secretary if you wish to purchase them.
To borrow one of these books for 4 weeks please send an A4 padded, stamped (2 x
48 cent stamps) envelope addressed to yourself, along with a note to say which
book you want to:
Kim Pierce, Carrowgar, Ogonnelloe, Scarriff, Co. Clare
I would like to build up a Home Education library that is available for HEN members.
As an aid to this I (Kim Pierce) are offering our own books on home education and
education as part of this library. Some of these books are either out of print or difficult
to get hold of so please look after them.
If anyone has books they can recommend we will try and get them. Also if anyone is
willing to donate books they have read, that would be very much appreciated. Books
can be sent to the address given below.
In the next while I will try and write a sentence or two describing each book. Most can
be found on the web with a good description. So I would suggest if you are not sure
about whether you would be interested then check for the description in Google.
There are 27 books available to loan. Books marked in orange * are available to buy.
Please, send an e-mail to our Secretary if you wish to purchase them.
- Educating Children at Home*, Alan Thomas, 1998
- Educating your Child at home*, Jane Lowe & Alan Thomas, 2002
- The Next Learning System, Roland Meighan, 1997
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook (revised), Grace Llewellyn, 1998
- Instead of Education, John Holt, 1976
- How Children Learn (Revised), John Holt, 1983
- Teach Your Own (Revised), John Holt & Pat Farenga, 2003
- Home Schooling our Children, Unschooling ourselves*, Alison McKee, 2002
- One Kid at a Time, Eliot Levine, 2002
- The Big Picture Company, Dennis Littky, 2004
- An “A” in Life - Famous Home Schoolers, Mac and Nancy Plent, 1999
- Our Camp, Our Children*, Diane Carpenter, 2002
- Early Reading – A guide for parents, Maire Mullarney, 1990
- Becoming Adult – how teenagers prepare for work, Mihaly Csikszentmialyi,
2000 - Learner managed learning & home education, Leslie Barson, (ed) 2006
- Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich, 1971
- Teaching Thinking, Edward De Bono, 1976
- The Use of Lateral Thinking, Edward De Bono, 1967
- How to be More Interesting, Edward De Bono, 1997
- A 5 day course in Thinking, Edward De Bono, 1967
- Bring out the Genius in Your Child, Ken Adams, 1997
- Primary Options, Eleanor Gaire & Oliver Mahon, 2005
- Help your child to read and write, and more, David Mackay & Joseph Simo,
1976 - Be your child’s natural teacher, Geraldine Taylor, 1984
- Child’s Minds, Margaret Donaldson, 1978
- Your Child can think like a Genius, Bernadette Tynan, 2004
- And the Skylark Sings with me, David H. Albert, 1999
To borrow one of these books for 4 weeks please send an A4 padded, stamped (2 x
48 cent stamps) envelope addressed to yourself, along with a note to say which
book you want to:
Kim Pierce, Carrowgar, Ogonnelloe, Scarriff, Co. Clare
DVDs available for Loan
HEN now has 3 different DVDs available for loan. They are:
If you would like to borrow one of these please send an A5 stamped address
envelope to:
Kim Pierce, Carrowgar, Ogonnelloe, Scarriff, Co. Clare.
HEN now has 3 different DVDs available for loan. They are:
- Weapons of Mass Instruction, by John Taylor Gatto – 69 minutes. From
Learning in our Own Way - August 2005 Conference. This is excellent, being
both uplifting and informative, challenging the whole notion of the advisability
of formal schooling. - The Myth of the ADD Child, by Dr. Thomas Armstrong - 90 minutes long.
From Learning in our Own Way - August 2005 Conference. This talk
challenges the growing medicalisation of attention and behaviour in children.
A broad based and far reaching presentation of why these children are not
as they are portrayed – why the explanation or story may be considered more
myth than science. He includes strategies for helping children. Some parts
are fairly technical. - 8 Kinds of Smart – by Dr. Thomas Armstrong - 75 minutes long. From
Learning In Our Own Way - August 2005 Conference. An wide ranging
exploration of intelligence. Recommended.
If you would like to borrow one of these please send an A5 stamped address
envelope to:
Kim Pierce, Carrowgar, Ogonnelloe, Scarriff, Co. Clare.