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Home Schoolers Content to Take Children's Lead - New York Times - 0 views

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  • kelsey iglesias on 25 Mar 11
     
    "As the number of children who are home-schooled grows - an estimated 1.1 million nationwide - some parents like Ms. Walter are opting for what is perhaps the most extreme application of the movement's ideas. They are "unschooling" their children, a philosophy that is broadly defined by its rejection of the basic foundations of conventional education, including not only the schoolhouse but also classes, curriculums and textbooks."
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  • Lauren Tripp on 25 Mar 11
     
    Kelsey, one of my students last semester wrote a fascinating paper on this "unschooling" phenomenon - I am intrigued! Can't wait to hear your perspective on it.
  • Steven Carrera on 28 Mar 11
     
    ""When you think about it, the way they do things in school is mostly for crowd control," said Karen Tucker, a mother of three boys who is an unschooler in Siloam Springs, Ark., and belongs to the Unschoolers of the Ozarks. "We don't duplicate the methods of school because we've rejected school."" I agree with Karen Tucker here. The American school system is a joke, I can say this because I have experienced it, and I am pretty sure the majority of the students that have gone through this system can say the same thing. I feel that I would have learned more if I was outside of the school system because I really didn't learn much in the school system to begin with. Teachers hardly taught, especially when they were mostly "crowd controlling" due to fights and misbehavior from students in the classroom. So, I can definitely see why they reject school, I know I would reject an education like the one I had for my children.
  • Amy Brown on 28 Mar 11
     
    I agree that there seems to be a lot of benefits to "unschooling". However, I do think it is important for children to interact with other children their age. Even if they have siblings around their same age, you act differently with them. If the parents decide to home school their children I believe they should make sure they get involved in other activities, such as Boys/Girls Scouts or a TEAM sport that allows them to develop the social skills that are so important to their development.
  • Leslie Hall on 28 Mar 11
     
    This was a neat article! This idea of "un-schooling" seemed radical to me at first. But after reading this article, it makes a little more sense. I think it can shake some of us up because we are scared to think outside the box...we're scared to think of "what could happen if you don't go to school". Or at least I am. I sometimes fall into the trap of thinking there is only one way to do school, and everything else is weird and dangerous for social/psychological development in children. But this idea seems realistic. Why wait until college to choose areas of focus? Homeschooling is rising in popularity, but I am curious to see A) what other research you find on this topic and B) how this idea grows in the future!
kelsey iglesias

"Unschooling" stresses curiosity more than traditional academics - 0 views

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  • kelsey iglesias on 25 Mar 11
     
    Manfred Smith, the president of the Maryland Home Education Association, based in Columbia, Md., said members of his organization once considered themselves unschoolers. "It meant we were not going to replicate a traditional school-like focus on curriculum and text," he said. "We wanted to focus on the needs and interests of our children." But Mr. Smith said his group stopped using the term unschooling when it concluded the word had become tainted. "You have people claiming to be unschoolers, providing minimal or no supervision," he said. "Unschooling can be this great rationalization or outright excuse not to make an effort."
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Unschooling: Homeschooling Without Books, Tests or Classes - ABC News - 1 views

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  • Caitie Tighe on 25 Mar 11
     
    They followed up on somewhat older kids (13 years I think), but it would be interesting to see where these unschooled children end up as adults. It seems like the products of unschooling are not compatible with American ideals, but then again, it also seems like these families are already living by their own standards and so it probably doesn't matter much to them how they are viewed by others.
  • kelsey iglesias on 25 Mar 11
     
    "Most children will always choose television over reading every time, but Yablonski said that "the key there is that you've got to trust your kids to ... find their own interests."
  • kelsey iglesias on 25 Mar 11
     
    Caitie, that is something I have been interested in finding out as I continue to research this topic. I have read many blogs where multiple parents talk about their children excelling in college after being unschooled, but I am still skeptical. It seems like an intriguing idea that could work, but only if society was willing to adapt to its rules and not close opportunities for those that choose this unique form of education.
kelsey iglesias

Brilliant Educational Philosophy or Lazy Parenting? by Carrie Lauth - 0 views

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  • kelsey iglesias on 31 Mar 11
     
    What unschoolers have in common is their trust of children. They believe that children can lead their own education. They believe that parents are facilitators, not taskmasters. Unschoolers think that kids should learn what they want, in the way they want, where and when they want. To unschoolers, learning is something as natural as breathing.
Jenna Rocklein

More on Homeschooling, Unschooling, & Alternative Learning - 0 views

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  • Jenna Rocklein on 29 Mar 11
     
    This journal was started in 2007 and cover the following 3 topics: 1.Unschooling or life learning (we are interested in any age group and not just school age children, for example) 2.Learner centered democratic education 3.Limitations of the mainstream educational system
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