Reschooling Posts from March 6-12, 2022
Smash the Class, School Revolt Special: the need for unlearning in learning
March 12, 2022 from Anarchist Pedagogies Network
As part of the School Revolt, Sonia and Nicole got together to discuss the need for collectives and individuals to put effort towards unlearning. So often we encounter a range of interpersonal oppression that actively sabotage our abilities to prefigure and develop a healthy society. Much of this comes from the ways that our societies have been structured, but it has definitely impacted all of our values and attitudes in the ways that we organise. Sonia and Nicole both believe that it is necessary to address these, and they think that there are many ways that we can be doing this.
Self-Directed Education and Anarchism: a Q&A with Grown Unschoolers
March 12, 2022 from Anarchist Pedagogies Network
What is self-directed education, and why should anarchists care about it? We like to define it as education that derives from the self-chosen activities and life experiences of the learner, while remaining embedded in and shaped by the learner's communities. It's an umbrella term for such diverse approaches as unschooling, free schools, Agile Learning Centers and Flying Squads. Self-directed education and anarchism seem to both of us to be deeply compatible philosophies, and we'd like to share the reasons we feel that's the case and answer any questions attendees might have, as both grown unschoolers and anarchists ourselves.
Pi Day – March 14th
March 11, 2022 from Unschooling Mom2Mom
Each March, math geeks and pie lovers converge to celebrate Pi Day! Mathematically speaking, the date is chosen because Pi = 3.14+ As Unschoolers, I want to take a moment to show you how math really does weave through our lives. We just have to notice it! So how would unschoolers celebrate Pi Day? I'm so glad you asked! Here's your Refresher Course about what Pi is all about!
Challenges and Opportunities
March 11, 2022 from Alpine Valley School Podcast
Staff Members at self-directed democratic schools like Alpine Valley School are often asked what sorts of unique challenges students experience at places like this. While our students are free from the tests and grades that are imposed on others in mainstream education, they do encounter a totally different set of struggles. Not only that, but parents often have to deal with their own difficulties as well. In this episode of the Alpine Valley School podcast staff members Larry, Katy, and Connie talk about what makes life at our school challenging and how they’ve seen students and parents find strength in their struggles.
Creating radical changes in education … is it more effective to work ‘within the system’ or innovate from ‘the outside’?
March 11, 2022 from Sophie Christophy
Max and I wrote another piece together, this time on change making…. (this post was originally posted on Write On Changemakers).
Max Hope and Sophie Christophy share an aspiration to radically change the education system, but the journeys that brought them together have been completely different. They are activists and partners in work and in life. In this exchange of emails, they explore whether it is more effective to work within the system or to innovate from the outside and unpick some of the painful decisions that they – and others – must make when deciding where to position themselves and put their energies.
Amy's Unschooling Journey with Amy Hughes, Episode 320
March 10, 2022 from Living Joyfully with Unschooling
Amy Hughes, unschooling mom of eight children, joins me on the podcast this week. Over the years, Amy's family moved from school to homeschooling to Charlotte Mason and finally to unschooling. She shares the big a-ha that led her to unschooling as well as how unschooling works in her large family. We talk about Amy's advice to other large families and what has helped her most to avoid overwhelm. She also shares her daughter's experience with attending college after unschooling.
Invisible labour, mindset shifts, utopias and self-worth
March 9, 2022 from Radical Acts
I’m going to jump right to it. Yesterday was International Women’s Day and today is probably as good a day as any to address invisible labour. Women know what this is - it’s all the work we do that gets no recognition, no air space and no reward of any kind. All of us do it, but women seem to shoulder a disproportionate amount of this sort of work.
Inspiring Intrinsic Motivation with Iris Chen
March 8, 2022 from Peaceful Worldschoolers
Join Angela Harders as she has a conversation with Iris Chen. Iris is The founder of the Untigering movement and the author of Untigering: Peaceful Parenting for the Deconstructing Tiger Parent. After starting out as a hard-core tiger mother, she began to untiger when she saw the negative effects of authoritarian parenting in her own family. Now she’s on a mission to empower others to practice peaceful parenting and unschooling, especially among Asian communities.
Supporting Passions & Unschooling In The Teen Years
March 8, 2022 from Honey! I’m Homeschooling the Kids
In unschooling, children learn through everyday life experiences. That is the path that our family has followed since we decided to Worldschool, when our oldest was halfway through grade 1. We made a choice to try our best to support our children in following their interests and passions. What that looked like many years later was our son, at age 14, leaving home to live and work in the Canadian wilderness for a wildlife outfitters. He worked many months trail cutting, horse wrangling and learning to guide.
Judging and Other People’s Opinions
March 8, 2022 from Stories of an Unschooling Family
Why do we judge each other? Why do we worry so much about other people’s opinions of us? And what would everyone think of me if they knew what I did?
In this vlog, I tell a story about a duck murderer, and another one about death and a bar of chocolate, as I ponder the above questions.
Unschooling Journeys with Porter Singer
March 7, 2022 from Homeschool Together
In today's Unschooling Journeys we have Porter Singer a performing artist and unschooling mother of 2. We continue to dive deeper into the unschooling world and learn more about the how's and why's of unschooling. With each of these talks we discover new ways we can incorporate unschooling methods into our daily life.
A Day in the Life of a slow (un)schooler.
March 7, 2022 from Living Without School
Learning slowly means the children are playing and I call them over to have breakfast. We eat pancakes while I read aloud from a new book they are excited about. They intervene with questions and exclamations and we wonder about things out loud and promise to look them up. I make a mental note to find videos about the largest underground cave in the world. It’s 18 times as big as the 02 arena in London, we find out.