Mary Griffith's Viral Learning

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Mary Griffith is the author of The Homeschooling Handbook: From Preschool to High School, A Parent's Guide and The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom, which together have sold more than 75, 000 copies.

Viral Learning: Reflections on the Homeschooling Life is a collection of linked essays looking back on her two decades as a homeschooling parent and activist, and considering how that experience affected her and the wider society.

The Homeschooling Image: Public Relations Basics is an electronic version of a booklet originally published in 1996 to help and encourage local homeschool support groups to promote homeschooling and actively counter misinformation about the homeschooling movement.

Visit Mary's main website at: www.marygriffith.net

Viral Learning: Reflections on the Homeschooling LifeViral Learning: Reflections on the Homeschooling Life (book)

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Now that active homeschooling was coming to an end for our family, I found myself pondering its long-term effects: How different am I from the person I would have been if I'd not been a homeschooling parent? How have my interests and values changed because of our kids learning at home? How are my kids different from their peers? Suddenly, after all these years, I realized there was another homeschooling book in my head. But this book isn't another guide to how to homeschool, nor is it meant to help homeschooling parents survive the empty-nest syndrome. This book is personal. It's a reflection on how I (along with a few of my friends) came to homeschooling, how it affected us and our view of the world, and how those changes in us may spark changes around us.

THE HOMESCHOOLING IMAGE: Public Relations BasicsTHE HOMESCHOOLING IMAGE: Public Relations Basics (e-book)

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An ebook version of Mary Griffith's The Homeschooling Image: Public Relations Basics, originally published in 1996.

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Reviews of VIRAL LEARNING: REFLECTIONS ON THE HOMESCHOOLING LIFE:

from Marty Layne (see her website at www.martylayne.com):

The best thing about Mary Griffith’s new book Viral Learning is learning more about Mary. She told me the story about how she became a world famous homeschooling author. What I didn’t know is that her book The Unschooling Handbook and my book Learning At Home: A Mother’s Guide To Homeschooling were published in the same year. Mine in the isolation of Victoria, BC on the West Coast of Canada and hers all over North America.

Viral Learning made me laugh, surprised me and made me want to give Mary a big thumbs up for letting us into her wonderful mind and way of thinking. Not only is Mary someone who writes well, she is a prime example of the viral learning she’s writing about. Her thoughts about education don’t follow straight and narrow pathways – they meander and go off in all sorts of delicious directions - demonstrating the effects of learning without restriction.

I was especially fascinated by Mary’s description of how she sees the world in text. I am always asking people how they think; in what ways do their ideas come forward; how do they internally experience or see the world. i> gave me a view into the way her mind works – it’s an amazing place.

A must read book for anyone who is homeschooling with their children, is thinking about doing it, and /or has done it. It will make you food for thought. For those new to this way of education, it will give you the courage to explore your own ways of learning. For those who have been there, done that, it will give you an opportunity to reflect on how homeschooling has infected you with viral learning.

Thanks, Mary, for a great read!