Unschooling

## Contents

* 1 Resource description
* 2 Readings
* 3 Projects
* 4 See also
* 5 References

## Resource description[edit | edit source]

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.[1]

See w:Unschooling.

## Readings[edit | edit source]

* 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[edit | edit source]

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

## See also[edit | edit source]

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

## References[edit | edit source]

1. ↑ "Unschooling: The popular natural learning alternative". Homeschool Base. Retrieved 2017-04-28.