How do unschoolers turn out? (2014)

Re:How do unschoolers turn out? (2014) by riffraff on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:24AM (#23833014)

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.

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Re:How do unschoolers turn out? (2014) by ido on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @02:12PM (#23835540)

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.

The salient point is that kids want to learn on their own & you should try to see what interests them and direct them to productive ways to learn more/support them instead of selecting the subjects for them. The free schools I know do not have a fixed curriculum but provide various classes that the kids can elect from. The teachers are also open to suggestions and ask the kids what they want to learn/do.

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).

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