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Mimi Rothschild Brings You “The Concept of Unschooling”
2010-04-21 21:28:00 Mimi Rothschild Brings You “The Concept of Unschooling” by Lisa M. Hendey Mimi Rothschild Brings You “The Concept of Unschooling” Author Interview with Suzie Andres, Homeschooling with Gentleness: A Catholic Discovers Unschooling by Lisa M. Hendey Whether you are a homeschooling parent or simply a parent concerned with the quality of your children’s faith formation and education, you owe it to yourself and your family to learn a bit about the concept of “unschooling”. In her new book Homeschooling with Gentleness: A Catholic Discovers Unschooling (Christendom Press, October 1004, paperback, 132 pages) takes a look at this “gentle” variation to the traditional homeschooling path. As a mother of two Catholic school students, I must admit that I initially approached Andres’ book from a perspective of suspicion. My reading of this book, however, produced much fruit in the form of an enhanced appreciation for my own role, and especially th...
Mimi Rothschild on Unschooling
2010-04-15 01:47:00 My concern about unschooling is that can place the child at the center of the learning, instead of God. If driven by the child, it is not being driven by the Lord. If learnng is directed by the child, what happens when the child behaves sinfully which he will do because that is his inherent nature. In my 25 years of homeschooling, I have found that a curriculum helps organize the material that is considered important to learn if you want to be an “educated” individual. Much of the curriculum in public school is downright wrong. Much of the packaged homeschooling curriculum is downright boring (imho). Real experiences will always be the best teacher and if unschooling actively seeks situations in which the child is experiencing real aspects of life or working on a trade through an internship or relationship of some sort with somone who knows more about a subject, then that type of unschooling can be wonderful. But the notion that children will automatically “...
Unschooling - Day in the Life
2008-05-12 18:29:00 I got an email from a friend recently asking about unschooling. Her concern was whether it was really possible that her 2-3 year old would ever become interested in all the amazing things there are in the world (besides the current interest: animals). For parents of two-year olds, it may indeed be hard ...
By: Tiny Grass
HomeSchool - Unschooling
2008-04-29 05:18:00 What I could understand about homeschool is that the child is kept away from school and learned from home, guided by their parents or guardian and that they are taught in the home under the supervision of correspondence schools or umbrella schools with an approved curriculum. To me it’s just like going to school, learning ...
Christian education and unschooling
2008-02-09 09:24:00 On my entry regarding Christian education, JJRoss of Cocking a Snook asks an interesting question. As a radical unschooling mom but not a Christian educator, this thread got me wondering whether an ?unschooled? Christian education would be desirable or even imaginable, in which children were lovingly, respectfully parented but not diligently disciplined, schooled and indoctrinated in ...
Unschooling - the next stage?
2007-12-27 16:14:00 I know I’ve mentioned that I attend an unschooling support group on a monthly basis. I really love it, and find it necessary for my sanity sometimes. But every so often at the support group, one of the veteran unschoolers starts a sentence with something like, “Whatever stage you are in your ...
By: Tiny Grass
Unschooling Voices #10
2007-11-21 18:58:00 The monthly unschooling blog carnival. Unschooling Voices 10th edition. Come check it out and take a peek into the lives of unschooling families. Unschooling is a type of homeschooling where there are no formal lessons. If you're interested5 Zoom(s)
Unschooling Support Group
2007-10-13 01:27:00 Today our family went to our semi-local monthly unschooling support group. What a recharging experience! If it weren’t for this group, and maybe a few of the online communities and blogs that I read, I might think that we were the strangest family in the world. My contribution, today, was the worry about whether ...
By: Tiny Grass
Unschooling at work? My son wants to learn to read
2007-07-15 21:39:00 Last week I was out in the yard with my son. We'd been hanging out together, keeping an eye on our duckies while we played and chatted. He's been surprising us lately with his creativity (making up songs about almost anything, dictating a full story) and thoughtfulness (ok - we think it's thoughtfulness when we ask 'what's up' and he goes 'nothing, i'm just thinking'). read more
By: Arphaus
a passion for knowledge.... and unschooling
2007-06-06 08:25:00 I think I've finally found a topic I can really talk about - education, knowledge, and specifically, unschooling.I was told a long time ago I might make a good teacher. Now that I have a son, I'm thinking about his future and I don't like what I see in public school- I went to public school, and they get worse every year.Not only is it the problems we think of, but there's the miseducation that's going on - the painful omissions of important things that might be closer to what we think our child should be exposed to.Less walking on eggshells and more clear-cut reality refocus.That's really what refocusality is all about.More soon.unschooling tools and unschooling multimedia for radical unschooling with different, unorthodox ideas
Unschooling at its Purest
2007-03-17 04:33:00 My baby girl, 3 months old, has decided that she wants to roll over ~Do I Make her? NoDo I Push her? NoDo I test her & grade her on her progress? Of course not!I give her the opportunity to practice ~ I roll over next to her so she can see ~ I encourage her ~ I show her how to move that rascally arm out of her way...and I let her do it at her own pace and her own time. Why does she keep on trying? Because she's ready, because she wants to roll over, because she wants to move with her brother & sister...and she will. Because humans learn ~ that's what we do. That's really the premise of unschooling ~ trusting that our children will learn what they need when they need it because they want or need it at the time and us providing them every opportunity to do and/or explore whatever that may be whenever that may be. It's a very active and engaged method of living (thereby learning) and I love to watch it unfold ~ even in the tiniest of the tiny : )
By: Be Free To Learn
Homeschooling, Unschooling and other crazy things people do
2007-03-10 20:16:00 As we get closer to the time when Joseph will enter 1st Grade (or real school as I think of it) I'm starting to wonder if the school he's in now is really the right place for him. His teacher this year is great and so is his IEP case manager. What if that's not the case next year? What if he has another great teacher but she's just too busy and overwhelmed to give him the attention he needs on a daily basis? What if she's terrible and doesn't know how to deal with his behavior? So I've been thinking about some other options.HomeschoolingI don't think I could do this. I dont' have the skills needed to make Joseph sit down and learn. There are days when I think I don't even have the skills to deal with him just during regular day to day stuff. (Note to self - does this mean that I'm used school as a way to get Joseph out of the house and out of my hair for a few hours a day? Probably. I can live with that.) I know that homeschooling has it advantages but one thing...
By: Problem Girl
Unschooling Picks Up Steam
2007-02-27 16:14:06 By Mimi Rothschild The Louisville Courier-Journal ran a recent story on the growing popularity of unschooling. Unschooling was the hot topic of the homeschooling world in 2006 and it shows no signs of slowing down. Self-taught learning, educational autonomy, child-led learning, are all names for what is now considered “unschooling.” “It’s an awareness that learning is always happening because it’s part of living,” said Jane Van Stelle Haded of Hobart, who unschools her two children. “It’s almost trying to capitalize on whatever your children are interested in.” Whether that means baking bread with mom or playing an education video game with little brother, learning can happen anywhere. This type of learning stands in stark contrast to the rigid structures and testing formats of the public school system. Educators are currently unable to tell if unschoolers can stack up against their public school counterparts academically be... |
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