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Changing Our Minds

How children can take control of their own learning

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Changing Our Minds

By: Naomi Fisher
Narrated by: Deryn Edwards
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Children are born full of curiosity, eager to participate in the world. They learn as they live, with enthusiasm and joy. Then we send them to school. We stop them from playing and actively exploring their interests, telling them it's more important to sit still and listen. The result is that for many children, their motivation to learn drops dramatically. The joy of the early years is replaced with apathy and anxiety.

This is not inevitable. We are socialised to believe that schooling is synonymous with education, but it's only one approach. Self-directed education puts the child back in control of their learning. This enables children, including those diagnosed with special educational needs, to flourish in their own time and on their own terms. It enables us to put wellbeing at the centre of education.

Changing Our Minds brings together research, theory and practice on learning. It includes interviews with influential thinkers in the field of self-directed education and examples from families alongside practical advice. This essential guide will give you an understanding of why self-directed education makes sense, how it works, and what to do to put it into action yourself.©2021 Naomi Fisher Childhood Education Developmental Psychology Education Parenting & Families Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Relationships Inspiring Child Development Education Children Mind Control
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A must read/listen for everyone who's ever been in school. This book blows the whole school paradigm out of the water! Well written, researched and laid out. If you've ever been a child or have a child please read this book!

Essential reading for everyone!

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This book really reminded me why I choose to home educate. It’s written very well and is easy to listen to.

Fantastic read,

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I so wish I had found this much earlier in my parenting journey. There is another way other than breaking children's will to fit a system that is leaving behind scarred kids and mental health issues year after year. Very empowering and knowledgeable.

Brilliant book every parent needs to read

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I'm in my 60s and wanted to understand how schooling is the today and how it was in the past.
Your book was like a breath of fresh air.
I myself had a very troublesome school childhood and I was very repellious, write up to leaving school, it is was so bad I was told that I wouldn't amount to anything if I couldn't read.
Anyway that's enough about me it's all about grandchildren these days. We have two, 9-year-old boy and a three and a half year old girl, "she's like a stick Dynamite never know when she's going explode".
My grandson asked me many many questions and of course I try to answer and if we don't know we treat it like an adventure, to find out through the World Wide Web. Which brought me to Amazon audio books
"Changing our minds" it's not only helped the way I think about the Education system today, but also helped me understand my school education many years ago, I thank you for this (Dr Naomi Fisher).

Kind regards.

My life in their hands

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This book has opened up the reality of how school can be a harmful place for children and in turn parents as it made us all miserable. it also explained my experience as a child and why the anxiety carried forward into adulthood. This book has laid to rest the need to make children go to school to learn and that this is the only way they will and I thank the author for giving me guidance as to why I should absolutely unschool my children who have never thrived in the mainstream setting. I am now very hopefully that our family can live a better way of life with more joy and freedom without the control of the system. I would recommend this book to anyone who has children in the school setting that aren’t thriving. it’s given me the confidence to know how to best serve them for their futures and to take the plunge in the right way and not try to recreate school at home. Within a week of reading this book my kids are showing me what they want to learn and how. I’m seeing their learning in a totally different way and they already seem so much happier and engaged in what they are doing and we are all less anxious. I’m now looking forward to the future without the fear of failure that has crippled us in the past. Here’s to a new way which serves the whole family.

I wish I had read this before my children started school! Life changing read.

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