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Learning By Living Podcast
by Kevin Currie-Knight
Learning by Living is a podcast about people who learn outside of conventional schools. Gina Riley and Kevin Currie-Knight talk to unschoolers, homeschoolers, world-schoolers, staff at alternative schools, etc, all with an eye toward how learning (and living!) takes place outside of conventional school settings.
Episodes
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Unschoolers Learning to Read (w/ Gina Riley)
Listeners know today’s guest well. She’s Gina Riley, the co-host of this podcast. Gina is an educational psychologist, a Clinical Professor in the Adolescent Special Education Program at CUNY – Hunter College and, of course, she has a big interest in unschooling, even having written a book called...
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Self-Directed Learning in the College Classroom (w/ Kevin Currie-Knight)
On this episode, Gina interviews the show's co-host, Kevin Currie-Knight, about his experience with self-directed learning. Kevin is a professor in East Carolina University's College of Education where he teaches future teachers. But he teaches in a way that leans heavily on self-directed…
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From Unschooling to College to a Career in Science (w/ Xaq Rzetelny)
In this episode, we talk to Xaq Rzetelny. Xaq is a grown unschooler, science writer, and communicator of science focusing on astrophysics. He's also been a radio host and most recently, a performer at Liberty Science Center's Jennifer Chalsty Planetarium, the largest in the Western Hemisphere.…
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Unschooling (or Worldschooling) with Five Children (w/ Kate Green)
Today’s guest, Dr. Kate Green, has five very successful, alternatively educated young adult and teen children of her own. She also loves working as an educational consultant, to help other families make decisions that enable their children to joyfully excel. Kate, Gina, and I talked about what it...
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Self-Directing Life (w/ Ki Aoyagi)
Since doing this podcast, one thing Gina and I have noticed about self-directed learning is that people who undertake it in their formative years develop a really strong sense of self - the kind of sense of self that is unafraid to take on any limits around them. That's definitely true of today's...
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Liberating Teen Learning at Northstar (w/ Ken Danford)
This episode’s guest has been advising teens to opt out of school for over two decades now. Ken Danford used to be a middle school teacher, but once he discovered self-directed learning, he co-founded the North Star Learning Center for Teens, a space where teenagers have control of their time and...
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Learning and Growing at the Circle School (w/ Jim Rietmulder)
What happens when kids rule the school? Well, that - When Kids Rule the School - is the title of a recent book by today’s guest, Jim Rietmulder. Jim is is a founding staff member at The Circle School in Pennsylvania, which is among the oldest self-directed democratic schools, where kids really do...
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Unschooling Four Kids in the 1990's (w/ Robin Alpern)
On this episode, we are joined by Robin Alpern, a 65-year-old white woman who narrowly missed a career as an elementary school teacher. Instead, she and her former husband unschooled their four children to college. This was largely in the 1990’s, and since there weren’t many resources for...
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From Homeschool to Formal School to a Career in Science (w/ Alice Goldstein-Plesser)
Our guest for this episode has worked as a research fellow at the Environmental Protection Agency, and will soon be working toward her PhD in microbiology at Dartmouth College. But her first day of school was at the age of 14, when she decided to attend a public high school after being…
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Lessons About Learning Freely from Pathfinder Community School (w/ Hope Wilder)
Our guest today, Hope Wilder is the founder of Pathfinder Community School, a learning community where kids truly learn by living. A lifelong learner herself, Hope had an accelerated experience of the public school system, graduating from the University of South Carolina at the age of 19 with...
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From Unschooler to Unschooling Parent (w/ Bria Bloom)
Our guest on this episode, Bria Bloom, has seen self-directed learning from two perspectives. Bria is a born and raised unschooler who now has the daily joy of parenting a self-directed learner. She is also a passionate advocate for self-directed education and young people's rights, and channels...
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Former Teacher Helping Self-Directed Teens (w/ Katy Burke
How do self-directed teens prepare for adult life? What is the value of allowing teens to “do nothing” with their time? Today, we talk with Katy Burke, a former public school teacher of 11 years who, frustrated with standardized testing, gave up teaching in a conventional school and found work in...
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An Entrepreneur Uses Technology to Facilitate Self-Directed Learning (w/ Jim Flannery)
Entrepreneur, disability rights activist, and advocate of self-directed learning. Our guest today, Jim Flannery, is all of these. Jim is a former high school physics teacher who now advocates for self-directed learning and is the creator of the Peer Unschooling Network, a digital community for...
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Teacher Turned Self-Directed Learning Facilitator (w/ Cassidy Younghans)
Current studies report that around 50% of public school teachers leave the profession entirely within their first five years. Our guest today, Cassidy Younghans, taught 7th grade English in a public school for 5 years before leaving school teaching and finding a more fulfilling, way to work with...
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Self-Directed Learning in High School Classrooms (w/ David Lane)
While teaching in a conventional school, David Lane has found ways to bring the power of self-directed learning to learners both in and out of school settings. Years ago, he co-created the now defunct Ingenuity Hub, an self-directed alternative to school. He has also taught a self-directed high...
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Unschooling with Two Young Learners of Color (w/ Akilah Richards)
n this episode, Gina and Kevin sit down with author, podcaster, and unschooler of two, Akilah Richards. We have a wide-ranging conversation about what motivated Akilah and her family to unschool, what learning looks like when decoupled from compulsory school, the promise of unschooling for...
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One (Anonymous) Family Discovers Unschooling
Over a recent holiday vacation, Kevin caught up with relatives of his about their experience unschooling. This family, with kids ranging in age from 7 months to twelve years, came upon unschooling almost by accident. They originally set out to homeschool their children, but noticed that the...
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Learning From the World Through Worldschooling (w/ Lainie Liberti and Miro Siegel)
DESCRIPTION: Lainie Liberti and her son Miro Siegel join us on this episode to talk about worldschooling. 11 years ago, Lainie and Miro hit the road for what was supposed to be a one year adventure. Ever since, Lainie and Miro have been traveling slowly around the globe and learning from the…
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Teens Direct Their Own Learning in the Independent Project
What does it look like when teens get the freedom to direct their own learning in a conventional school? On this episode, we find out by talking to Mike Powell, a guidance counselor at Monument Mountain High School in Western Massachusetts. Mike has served as a long-time faculty advisory to the...
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From Middle School Teacher to Staff at a Sudbury School (w/ Matthew Gioia)
Matthew Gioia is a long-time staff member at the Hudson Valley Sudbury School, and before that, was a middle school teacher. On this episode, we talk to Matthew about the kinds of learning by living he sees at HVSS, how the school works, and the different experiences of teaching middle school and...
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One Family’s Transition from Conventional to Sudbury School (w/ Jason Kuznicki and Allie Starin)
Jason Kuznicki and his 11-year-old daughter Allie Starin talk about transitioning from a conventional to a Sudbury school, from the decision process to the differences in Allie from then to now. Jason Kuznicki 1:46 - The decision to remove Allie from conventional school and place her in a Sudbury...
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Journalist and Parent of Four Unschoolers (w/ Kerry McDonald)
Kerry McDonald is an education journalist and a parent of four children who learn outside of conventional schools (ages 13, 10, 8, and 5). On this episode, we talk about the diversity of ways Kerry’s children learn, and the advantages and challenges of self-directed education. 1:06 - Kerry…
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From Unschooler to Classical Guitarist and Music Educator (w/ Ben Riley)
In this episode, we talk to Ben Riley (and his mother Gina, cohost of this show) to talk about Ben's experience growing and learning as an unschooler. Table of Contents: 1:45 - Why Unschooling: “I didn’t want there to be timetables.” 8:23 - Developing Passions: “I just wanted to know what all…
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Gina and Kevin Introduce the Podcast (and What Led to It)
What is the Learning by Living Podcast? In our premier episode, Gina Riley (Hunter College) and Kevin Currie-Knight (East Carolina University) discuss why they are doing a podcast telling stories of people who learn outside of conventional schools, tell their own stories of coming to…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Learning by Living is a podcast about people who learn outside of conventional schools. Gina Riley and Kevin Currie-Knight talk to unschoolers, homeschoolers, world-schoolers, staff at alternative schools, etc, all with an eye toward how learning (and living!) takes place outside of conventional school settings.
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Learning by Living is a podcast about people who learn outside of conventional schools. Gina Riley and Kevin Currie-Knight talk to unschoolers, homeschoolers, world-schoolers, staff at alternative schools, etc, all with an eye toward how learning (and living!) takes place outside of conventional...
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