Unschooling

Resource description

Unschooling is an educational philosophy and practice that considers traditional schooling as possibly detrimental to a person's education. Unschooling is usually classified as a subcategory of homeschooling that does not use a fixed curriculum. Without any curriculum dictating a student’s learning path, the child is free to explore what he or she finds naturally interesting.

See w:Unschooling.

Readings

• Deschooling our Lives ed. Matt Hern
• Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewelyn
• Weapons of Mass Instruction by w:John Taylor Gatto
• The Underground History of Public Education by John Taylor Gatto
• Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
• Savage Inequalities by Jonathon Kozol
• Free Schools by Jonathon Kozol
• Teach Your Own by John Holt
• Networked Learning
• School is a prison -- and damaging our kids, Peter Gray, Salon, Aug 26, 2013

"Longer school years aren't the answer. The problem is school itself. Compulsory teach-and-test simply doesn't work."

• Unschooling, the case for setting your kids into the wild, Ben Hewitt, Outside, August 12, 2014

"We Don't Need No Education, at least not of the traditional, compulsory, watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings kind. As a growing movement of unschoolers believe, a steady diet of standardized testing and indoor inactivity is choking the creativity right out of our kids. The alternative: set 'em free."

Projects

• Homeschooling will begin an index of resources for parents who practice homeschooling.
• Learning by failing

See also

• The Barrington Collective
• North Star: Self-Directed Learning for Teens
• w:Minimally invasive education