Unschooling
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Unschooling is an educational method and philosophy that rejects compulsory school as a primary means for learning. Unschoolers learn through their natural life experiences including play, game play, household responsibilities, personal interests and curiosity, internships and work experience, travel, books, elective classes, family, mentors, and social interaction. Unschooling encourages exploration of activities initiated by the children themselves, believing that the more personal learning is, the more meaningful, well-understood and therefore useful it is to the child. While courses may occasionally be taken, unschooling questions the usefulness of standard curricula, conventional grading methods, and other features of traditional schooling in maximizing the education of each unique child.
See also
- Alternative school
- Anarchistic free school
- Autodidacticism
- Democratic education
- Deschooling Society
- Gifted education
- Homeschooling
- Montessori method
- Not Back to School Camp—an annual gathering of over 100 unschoolers ages 13 to 18
- School-at-home
- Special education
- Sudbury Valley School
- Taking Children Seriously
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
- UnCollege
- Waldorf Education
Persons of interest
- Catherine Baker
- Albert Cullum—elementary school teacher from 1960s
- Sandra Dodd—advocate/author/speaker
- John Taylor Gatto—New York City's 1989 Teacher of the Year, New York State Teacher of the Year 1991
- John Holt (educator)
- Grace Llewellyn—author/advocate/speaker/camp director
- Dayna Martin—unschooling advocate, author, and conference speaker
- Wendy Priesnitz
- Ken Robinson (educationalist)
Adult unschoolers of note
- Peter Kowalke
- Jedediah Purdy, author and Professor of Law at Duke University
- Astra Taylor, filmmaker
- Sunny Taylor, painter and disability activist (also younger sister of Astra Taylor)
