Leaving Islam for Unschooling

Posts Tagged ‘Going in Peter’s Book’

Peter is working on a book about grown homeschoolers that is tentatively slated for release in the summer of 2012. These are some of the stories he's thinking of including in the book.

Leaving Islam for Unschooling

By Peter Kowalke, 03/28/2011, 5:04 am

Hafidha Acuay, 30, a grown unschooler from Battle Ground, Wash., sat down to chat about what she’s doing and thinking now. This interview was originally published in 2007 by Life Learning Magazine. A Slow Evolution Now Fast I work for an electric utility...

Confronting a World Where People Don’t Study

By Peter Kowalke, 02/17/2011, 3:57 pm

As much as I question college, I love studying. I’m a major academics geek. Randomly put me in a room with 10 people, and most of the time I will be the one who sounds like a college professor; I’m almost always passionately studying some...

Continuing the Family Business

By Peter Kowalke, 08/26/2010, 3:49 pm

Less than two years into college, Cameran Malloy knows the name of her future employer and the job she will be expected to perform. The employer goes by “Mom” and Cameran’s career after college will be that of pharmacist for Richford Rexall Drugs, her family’s...

Challenging the Assumptions of Parenthood

By Peter Kowalke, , 2:39 pm

Sarabeth Matilsky, 26, a grown unschooler from Medford, Mass., sat down to chat about what she’s doing and thinking now. This interview was originally published in 2006 by Life Learning Magazine. Where I Am Now My husband and I are selling our condo and moving...

Off to School–Art School!

By Peter Kowalke, , 2:08 pm

Salina Hunt, 26, a grown unschooler from New York, N.Y., sat down to chat about what she’s doing and thinking now. This interview was originally published in 2007 by Life Learning Magazine. Fresh from College I just finished college last year, and currently I’m working...

An Uneasy Alliance with the Mainstream

By Peter Kowalke, 08/08/2010, 1:42 pm

J.R. Morgan, 28, a grown unschooler from Los Angeles, Calif., sat down to chat about what he's doing and thinking now. This interview was originally published in 2006 by Life Learning Magazine. Money and Politics I stayed on the homeschooling track until I...

Doubts Now that I’m at College

By Peter Kowalke, 02/01/1999, 1:11 pm

Having spent time in a community college, a big state university, an Ivy League college, an alternative college and no college (á la unschooling), it has come to my attention that knowledge may be acquired via many different paths. Despite gross differences in cost, none...