I guess you have your work cut out for you then to write one. :-) Thanks for the comments on Babelfish.
--Paul Fernhout P.S. I did find that John Holt's _How Children Learn_ has been translated to fourteen languages -- not sure what they are though: http://www.holtgws.com/johnholtpage.html You also might find this to have interesting links: http://sandradodd.com/unschoolingotherwise According to that: "Germany Although homeschooling is not legal in Germany at this time, there is a new web site for promoting respectful parenting and natural learning in Germany. Mit Kindern leben und lernen it's in German http://www.unschooling.de/ German Unschooling list Mostly ... German with a few Austrians and a handful of Dutch and English readers [EMAIL PROTECTED] " Poking around at the unschooling.de URL, I found: http://www.leben-ohne-schule.de/deutschland.html I would think someone in there are bound to be links to people writing about technology and education in a German context, as there is some intersection. There are also some links here, of course, mostly to German news articles: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Germany Example: http://www.computerpartner.de/news/203352/ Then there is also "Skolelinux Germany": http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/education/tgs/tagatschool8.en.html Might be some discussions related to that in German? A related wiki: http://wiki.skolelinux.de/ My German from school is very rusty, so I can't easily be of more help; sorry. I would think searching on "John Holt" for his later writings might get you some interesting things though. Also, one more thought: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Sudbury_Schools "The following schools follow the Sudbury model of non-compulsory, democratic education, pioneered by Sudbury Valley School: [One in Leipzig, Germany] http://www.sudbury-hl.de/ " Maybe some links from there or people to talk to about technology and education (especially if you are anywhere around Leipzig, Germany)? I know that unschooling or homeschooling is generally not as available in Europe as in the USA, but I also think that alternative schools, like Montessori, Waldorf, or the Sudbury model are perhaps more common (as you yourself discovered already). Personally, I think the "Free school" model is the most workable compromise given today's society, and if I lived in Europe I would be thinking more about those. I'd even consider it if my family lived nearby one here in the USA. I guess there is something I can thank the USA's social conservative movement for -- homeschooling laws making unschooling possible. :-) I can't imagine how much fun it would be to teach Python in such a setting, where if the kids are working with you they are doing it out of genuine interest (even if it might not be long lasting). Those schools tend to expect more parental involvement in the schools, and I know if I sent a child to one, as a parent, I'd want to be offering Python (or Squeak) programming experiences to all the kids there as a volunteer. Bert Freudenberg wrote: > Thanks Paul, > > I know of Steiner, we have a son who went to a Waldorf school. We > choose a Montessori school for our other kids, which I like much better. > > Anyway, I was specifically looking for someone both knowledgable in > education *and* technology, and writing about the intersection of the two. _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
