HEN Ireland August 2007
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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 Kim Pierce and I (Nick Gudge) 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.

  1. Educating Children at Home*, Alan Thomas, 1998
  2. Educating your Child at home*, Jane Lowe & Alan Thomas, 2002
  3. The Next Learning System, Roland Meighan, 1997
  4. The Teenage Liberation Handbook (revised), Grace Llewellyn, 1998
  5. Instead of Education, John Holt, 1976
  6. How Children Learn (Revised), John Holt, 1983
  7. Teach Your Own (Revised), John Holt & Pat Farenga, 2003
  8. Home Schooling our Children, Unschooling ourselves*, Alison McKee, 2002
  9. One Kid at a Time, Eliot Levine, 2002
  10. The Big Picture Company, Dennis Littky, 2004
  11. An “A” in Life - Famous Home Schoolers, Mac and Nancy Plent, 1999
  12. Our Camp, Our Children*, Diane Carpenter, 2002
  13. Early Reading – A guide for parents, Maire Mullarney, 1990
  14. Becoming Adult – how teenagers prepare for work, Mihaly Csikszentmialyi, 2000
  15. Learner managed learning & home education, Leslie Barson, (ed) 2006
  16. Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich, 1971
  17. Teaching Thinking, Edward De Bono, 1976
  18. The Use of Lateral Thinking, Edward De Bono, 1967
  19. How to be More Interesting, Edward De Bono, 1997
  20. A 5 day course in Thinking, Edward De Bono, 1967
  21. Bring out the Genius in Your Child, Ken Adams,  1997
  22. Primary Options, Eleanor Gaire & Oliver Mahon, 2005
  23. Help your child to read and write, and more, David Mackay & Joseph Simo, 1976
  24. Be your child’s natural teacher, Geraldine Taylor, 1984
  25. Child’s Minds, Margaret Donaldson, 1978
  26. Your Child can think like a Genius, Bernadette Tynan, 2004
  27. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.