Reschooling Posts from March 13-19, 2022
Unschooling Teens with Robyn Robertson
March 19, 2022 from Sage Family
This is episode 72 and today I’m here with Robyn Robertson talking about unschooling teens. Robyn Robertson is an unschooling mom to 2 kids, podcast host, business owner and public school board trustee. Robyn, her husband and their 2 kids started their worldschooling journey in 2012. During this time, Robyn watched curiosity and excitement for life grow in her family. 2 things stood out to her — she noticed that less time in school did not equal less learning. In fact, learning seemed to be more meaningful outside of school. She also saw their family’s bond strengthen.
Patriarchy, Machismo & Raising Conscious Boys
March 18, 2022 from Radical Learning Talks
In this episode we pick up from the last episode and get really vulnerable. We share personal stories around the themes of power, patriarchy, machismo and our critical role in raising boys into conscious men and how that is tied to deschooling and liberation work. TRIGGER WARNING: In this episode we talk about sexual harassment and violence.
Invisible learning, the evaluative gaze, WILT and Montessori month
March 17, 2022 from Radical Acts
I want to talk some more about making learning visible, why society is so concerned about it, and why this is a problem. I wrote an essay for my Masters about evaluation in early childhood learning and development, and essentially made the case for evaluation and record-keeping that looks much more like Reggio-style learning: qualitative, narration-based, co-operative and based on the understanding that children are active participants in their learning, and therefore also in the ways their learning is made visible.
How Magazines’ Advice to Parents Has Changed Over a Century
March 17, 2022 from Freedom To Learn
I have previously written much about the decline, over decades, in children’s freedom to play and explore independently of adults and how that has contributed to well-documented declines in children's mental health, creative thinking, and internal locus of control (e.g., here, here, and here). Recently I came across a book that documents brilliantly how adults’ attitudes about children’s competence, duties, and responsibilities have changed over the past hundred years. I wish I had discovered it earlier, as it was published 11 years ago and would have been a great reference for some of my writings over the past decade.
Nate Singer on Questioning Education at Berkeley and Learning through Entrepreneurship
March 17, 2022 from Off-Trail Learning
Nate Singer is the Managing Director of Mission Holdings, a father of two, and the guy who first got me interested in alternative education. We discuss his early struggles at boarding school, getting rejected to UC Berkeley (but successfully appealing the decision), working hard as a math major, second-guessing conventional teaching methods, creating a class about educational television (where he and I met), John Taylor Gatto, and encouraging Berkeley students to question mainstream pedagogy.
A Passion for Creative Writing with Isabella, Caitlin, and Milva, Episode 321
March 17, 2022 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
This week on the podcast, I am joined by two teenage writers, Isabella Watkins and Caitlin Wharton, and their mentor, Milva McDonald. The three of them share their experience creating and participating in a homeschool creative writing group. This past year, they published an anthology of short stories and poetry and they describe some of the process of working on a big, collaborative project. They also share some of the important factors that make their group a safe space to explore writing together.
Intergenerational Healing in “Turning Red”
March 16, 2022 from Untigering
The animated movie Turning Red is probably relatable to many of us as children of Asian immigrants. There are familiar scenes of homemade congee and freshly cut fruit, A+ test papers, strict tiger parents, overbearing aunties, strange superstitions, embarrassing culture/language/generation gaps… oh, and all the anxiety, shame, pressure, and unprocessed intergenerational trauma as well.
An Adult Learning Unschooling Challenge
March 16, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
Is learning something that only school-aged kids do? Have we had our education, and is it now our kids’ turn to learn (and maybe suffer)? Or is learning something that we’ll all do for the rest of our lives? Is getting involved with our passions a luxury? Or are there good reasons for us to make time for our learning? Here are a few that I’ve pondered:
Unschooling Conversations: Creating Community with Alice Khimasia
March 16, 2022 from Live Play Learn
Alice Khamisia joins Heidi Steel this month to talk about Creating Community.
Supporting Passions and Unschooling to Adulthood
March 15, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
The Hunter family began their unschooling journey over 9 years ago. Tira Hunter says that "the benefits of unschooling put her daughter on a path to have a career in art and the freedom to pursue her passions on her own terms." Zoi Hunter is now 19 years old and a full-time commissioned artist. Zoi and her mother, Tira joined me on this episode to talk about their path to unschooling. They also share what they were able to reclaim along the way.
Interview With A Conscious Parent (Fiona Kelly) And Unschooling
March 14, 2022 from Coming Home
Unschooling is an important category in the Pantheon of homeschooling lifestyles. NZ-based homeschooling mother Fiona Kelly prefers to use the terms intuitive, natural or conscious parenting rather than the more general and broad category of ‘unschooling.’ She joins Christine to describe her family's impressive success with the learning style and explains some of the insights she gleaned over many years facilitating the learning of her children.
A Week in the Life (of an unschooling family).
March 14, 2022 from Living Without School
There are only so many times I can say that we have ‘no typical day’ and then not elaborate on that – so I figured it might be fun to take you all through a ‘typical week’ – although of course, there’s no such thing as a typical week! Ha!
But I think a whole week gets a little closer to including the range of possibilities, as well as our overall rhythm (which is semi-intentional, and also kind of just happens) than one single day does.
Learning from the homeschool movement with "Unschooled" author, Kerry McDonald
March 13, 2022 from Bald Guy Sci
In this episode of the Kick Some Class Podcast, I talked with author, Kerry McDonald. Kerry is passionate about homeschooling, parent choice, and student autonomy. She is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE, the Foundation for Economic Education.