Updated 2017-10-12
How unschoolers can help to end traditional reading instruction
A professor of Early Childhood Education describes how his children learned to read without formal instruction.
Karl Wheatley author
Wheatley, K. (2013). How unschoolers can help to end traditional reading instruction. Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning, 7(13) 1-27.
Description
Dr. Karl Wheatley — associate professor of Early Childhood Education and
coordinator of the Early Childhood Teacher Education program at Cleveland State University — describes how his children learned to read without formal instruction. He also asserts that taking a deeper look at the unschooling process can help reframe thoughts about traditional education, learning, and teaching as a whole, including mainstream ideas regarding how children learn to read.
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