About this episode

Cindy and Dawn discuss Charlotte Mason's tools for history study with guest Celeste Cruz, exploring their application in homeschooling.

Today on The New Mason Jar, Cindy and Dawn are joined by Celeste Cruz, Charlotte Mason homeschooling mom of eleven and executive director of the CMEC How Celeste came to know about Charlotte Mason's philosophy Some opening thoughts on CM's approach to history through both books and other things What are some of the tools we can use for studying history, and what is their natural progression? How does Celeste work these tools into her own homeschool? What is the value of these tools when students are already narrating? Why is it so important to consider the teacher's role in using these history study tools? How can we support our students in the process? See the full show notes for this episode at https://thenewmasonjar.com/139 .

People in this episode

Hosts: Cindy Rollins, Dawn

Guest: Celeste Cruz

Topics covered

• Charlotte Mason
• history study
• homeschooling
• educational tools
• teacher's role
• narration

Keywords

• Charlotte Mason
• history study tools
• homeschooling
• narration
• educational philosophy
• teacher's role

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CMEC

Books & works: Charlotte Mason

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