Wendy Priesnitz
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Early life
Priesnitz originally trained to be a teacher. She then decided to educate her children at home.
She founded the Canadian Alliance of Home Schoolers in 1979.[4]
Teaching and publishing career
She focuses on lifelong learning and biomimicry as a reason to look at decentralised or home (or autonomous) education.[5]
She is known for her advocacy of homeschooling/unschooling and home-based/green business. She describes the educational benefits as, "[unschooling] children generally live and learn, with the support of their families, based on their own interests and their timetables, and without curriculum, tests, or grades.".[6]
Priesnitz and her husband run Life Media (formerly The Alternative Press). Since 1976, she has co-owned and edited Natural Life (magazine), an award-winning sustainable lifestyles magazine. In 2002, she founded Life Learning Magazine, which she owns and edits.
She is the author of several books on homeschooling.
Works
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See also
References
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- ↑ The Canadian Encyclopedia website
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- ↑ Canadian Centre for Home Education website
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External links
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