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Home-based Learning Information
Ideas & inspiration about learning without school, since 1979

boy with bug in jar learning at homeThanks for your interest in the Canadian Alliance of Home Schoolers. It was founded in 1979 by author, editor and change-maker Wendy Priesnitz as Canada's first homeschooling support group. The organization is no longer active, but Wendy continues to write, speak and advocate about learning without schooling on an international basis. For ideas and inspiration about natural parenting and learner-directed education (also known as self-directed learning, natural learning, unschooling, homeschooling, life learning and child-directed home-based learning), you can find her writing at the sites below:

Life Learning Magazine - a magazine about unschooling published in print from 2002 to 2008 and continuing online

Natural Life Magazine - a magazine about natural family living (including unschooling) published from 1976 to present

School Free - The Home Schooling Handbook - a bestselling homeschooling start-up handbook

Challenging Assumptions in Education - From Institutionalized Education to a Learning Society - a book about what's wrong with factory-style education and how unschooling can change that

Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier - a collection of essays about unschooling from Life Learning Magazine

Life Learning Blog - a  blog about unschooling and homeschooling

Buy the book Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier

Natural Life Magazine's unschooling and homeschooling article index

Natural Life Books