There are interviews of me in text lined below (many with photos), and some others. Audio and video are being collected at SandraDodd.com/listen, but those that are specifically interviews might be below as well.
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I have said two years and four years, about how long I was going to do penance.... that's in there.Some of the stories I was reading in the first part, I also told in a recent interview that will be published in mid-August. So sorry, to people who read this and then listen to that. It might make it seem that I say the same thing all the time. I don't, but if the questions are the same...
Part 2 of the one above: Sandra Dodd Interview (Part II): How Do Unschoolers Cope with College and 21 Questions on Learning without School and Living Joyfully" interview by Rashmie Jaaju, on her blog, October 2012
Why a Former Teacher Kept Her Own Kids Out of the Classroom, St. Louis Kids Magazine, February 2011 (I gave my kids the choice; the title of that article was not my phrasing.)
An unschooling surprise: Sandra Dodd is in the house!, by Kim Houssenloge in Australia, November 2010.
Interview with Sandra Dodd, Natural Parenting Center; August, 2010 (the original is gone; good thing I saved a backup copy)
Why I Unschooled my Three Kids, April 2010, Momlogic.com [the original site is gone; this is a backup I made, but the photos and text are identical.]
Interview by Carletta, of "Successful Homeschooling"
20 Unschooling Questions: Sandra Dodd from NM, USA, May 2009. More a questionnaire than interview, but there are good bits and photos.
An Interview with Sandra Dodd, by Emily Subler, originally in Home Education Magazine in 1998
Living Unschooling with Sandra Dodd, interview by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko (PDF file), which is a Summer 2005 transcript of most of this Radio Interview. The two main topics are strewing and spirituality.
In Portuguese, from Notícias Magazine, Lisbon, in 2013 Escola da vida, escola em casa (pdf)
#16 Always Learning: A Conversation with Unschooling Pioneer Sandra DoddMore with The Conrad Family, 2024 (podcast or video)#25 LEARN NOTHING DAY - A dialogue with Sandra Dodd on Unschooling and the Complexities of Parenting
#54 - Sandra Dodd | Unschooling thoughts on gaming, YouTube and the internet#55 - Sandra Dodd | The Unforeseen Benefits of Unschooling - Healing past traumas
Later in the same series, Pam interviewed me about how unschooling can change parents. Changes in Parents
The Luminous Mind, Episode 197, Sandra Dodd, “Everything Counts”, podcast, 2017(?)
Audio interview: on Unschooling— interviewed by Michelle Barone, May 2012 Unschooling Summit (playable sound file and notes)
Amy Childs' Interview with Sandra Dodd, on WhateverAmen.com, October 11, 2010.
Relaxed Homeschooler Podcast from September 8, 2008
The show lasted 90 minutes and I talked most of that time! Listen to the whole thing on my blog here.
Improving Unschooling radio interview by Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
Unschooling: What It's Really All About Sandi Schwartz interviewed me September 30, 2009.
Unschooling
December 2012 "A Rich, Supportive Environment"
March 2013 "Unschooling is Life"
June 2013 "Four Continents"
September 2013 "Kinder and More Compassionate"
March 2014 "The Efficiency of Unschooling"
June 2014 Montana to Italy via Godzilla Sandra Dodd's UK Visit 2016, on Rethinking Parenting, by Emma Marie Forde
Unschooling;
How Learning through Living Leads to Happiness by Sarah Turner, for Principles of Cultural Anthropology (330) at the University of New Mexico in 2012. (Rose Sorooshian was also an informant. She's not named, but those familiar with her will recognize the parts that are about her.)
Unschooling media : participatory practices among progressive homeschoolers. Author: Bertozzi, Vanessa. (Chapter 4 is about our family.) I like that one above. This one is more jargonistic and more suitably educationese (for a master's thesis): "In perusing her writings online, I was particularly impressed by the way Sandra writes about unschooling using metaphors that amount to expressive vernacular theories of practice." I can explain in plain English what we're doing, I think she meant to say.
Although the file isn't as easily accessible as if it were in html, there is a good deal of information about our family there. Always Learning: Sandra Dodd (a questionnaire on Freedom and Fun, 2009)
A 2009 guest post at Blogging 'Bout Boys Wednesday, February 11, 2009 (backup copy)
More about my boys, with a book review, on the same blog. [(backup copy)]
the review and some comments
Yi-Tan Weekly Tech CallYi-Tan, one-hour discussion of unschooling on Monday, September 21, 2009, with Tammy Takahashi, Sandra Dodd and PS Pirro. It's a quick download, not an online file: http://yitantechcall.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/special-one-hour-yi-tan-call-248-unschooling/
It's a beepy phone call, but at the end the host does an awesome summary.
Sandra Interviews others:
Interview series, "Unschooling in the World," by Sandra Dodd (for a regional Homeschooling magazine that is twice defunct now)
with Joyce Fetteroll, of Westfield, Massachusetts, USA
with Pam Laricchia, of Erin, Ontario, Canada
with Schuyler Waynforth of Currumbin Waters, Queensland, Australia
with Rippy Dusseldorp of Leiden, in the Netherlands
with Julie Daniel of Ashford, Surrey, UK
with Deb Lewis of Deer Lodge, Montana, USA (photos still not there; sorry; my fault—Sandra)
Profiles:
During that research my kids were 19, 17 and 14. Vanessa wrote: "Sandra, who appears in many photographs with her glasses propped up on her head, has a quick wit and charisma. She's intensely intelligent with a knack for humorously revealing the ridiculous."
Reviews:
The Natural Child Project Parenting Site of the Month, February 2007
Sandra's biographical notes and pages