{"product_id":"raising-free-people-unschooling-as-liberation-and-healing-work-paperback","title":"Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAkilah S. Richards\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBayo Akomolafe\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. \u003cem\u003eRaising Free People\u003c\/em\u003e argues that we need to build and work within systems truly designed for any human to learn, grow, socialize, and thrive, regardless of age, ability, background, or access to money.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFamilies and conscious organizations across the world are healing generations of school wounds by pivoting into self-directed, intentional community-building, and \u003cem\u003eRaising Free People\u003c\/em\u003e shows you exactly how unschooling can help facilitate this process.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndividual experiences influence our approach to parenting and education, so we need more than the rules, tools, and \"bad adult\" guilt trips found in so many parenting and education books. We need to reach behind our behaviors to seek and find our triggers; to examine and interrupt the ways that social issues such as colonization still wreak havoc on our ability to trust ourselves, let alone children. \u003cem\u003eRaising Free People\u003c\/em\u003e explores examples of the transition from school or homeschooling to unschooling, how single parents and people facing financial challenges unschool successfully, and the ways unschooling allows us to address generational trauma and unlearn the habits we mindlessly pass on to children.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn these detailed and unabashed stories and insights, Richards examines the ways that her relationships to blackness, decolonization, and healing work all combine to form relationships and enable community-healing strategies rooted in an unschooling practice. This is how millions of families center human connection, practice clear and honest communication, and raise children who do not grow up to feel that they narrowly survived their childhoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAkilah S. Richards\u003c\/b\u003e is a public speaker and the founder of Raising Free People Network, a social enterprise focused on resolving the ways that unexamined experiences with bias and oppression disrupt families' and organizations' capacity to sustain cultures of belonging. \u003cb\u003eBayo Akomolafe\u003c\/b\u003e is executive director and chief curator for the Emergence Network and is the author of \u003ci\u003eWe Will Tell Our Own Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThese Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity's Search for Home\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759896068384,"sku":"9781629638331","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5302bcb495427e11e05bd63284befa77.webp?v=1780165513","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/raising-free-people-unschooling-as-liberation-and-healing-work-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}