Re:How do unschoolers turn out? (2014)
by ido on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:26AM
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Unschooling doesn't require homeschooling, there are many alternative (free/democratic) schools - in Berlin (where I live) alone there are about a dozen. It does not require more resources to run than a "normal" school, it's mostly that most parents don't want it for their kids (or are unaware of it).
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I do not understand: what are we talking about? Is "unschooling" in your interpretation just "not following a fix curriculum" ?
If that's the case, and you still go to a school while unschooled (which seems oxymoronic), why would there be issues with socialization?
It is not about my interpretation. Please search the web for unschooling (you can e.g. read the wikipedia article[0]) and you will very quickly learn what is meant by that & why there is no oxymoron.
I did that before posting, but the wikipedia page says
> unschooling is often considered a subset of homeschooling
And further down
> Unschooling is a form of home education, which is the education of children at home rather than in a school.
which is why I asked what your interpretation of it is.
Yeah sorry I guess that article is a bit confused - the first sentence is good IMO:
an informal learning that advocates learner-chosen
activities as a primary means for learning.
They have no grades & all kids (generally grades 1 to 6) are together in mixed-aged groups. There are also far fewer kids per adult but that may just be a function of these being private schools.
So there is no requirement to do that at home but I guess that is the most common form in the Anglophone countries (in German speaking ones it's the other way around).
You should learn what unschooling means. It’s not about curriculum or not attending any classes. I suggest Ivan Illich’s book “Deschooling Society.” As long as your frame of reference is modern formal schools you can only interpret alternatives from that perspective.