Wendy Priesnitz | |
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| Known for | Homeschooling and unschooling advocacy |
| Political party | Green Party of Canada (leader, July 1996 - January 1997) |
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Wendy Priesnitz is a Canadian advocate of alternative education and environmentalism. [1] [2] She was leader of the Green Party of Canada from July 1996 to January 1997. [3]
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]
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.
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