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It is not about my interpretation. Please search the web for unschooling (you can e.g. read the wikipedia article[0]) and you will very quickly learn what is me

• riffraff 6y ago
  I did that before posting, but the wikipedia page says > unschooling is often considered a subset of homeschooling And further down > Unschooling is a form of home education, which is the education of children at home rather than in a school. which is why I asked what your interpretation of it is.
  • ido 6y ago
    Yeah sorry I guess that article is a bit confused - the first sentence is good IMO: an informal learning that advocates learner-chosen activities as a primary means for learning. The salient point is that kids want to learn on their own & you should try to see what interests them and direct them to productive ways to learn more/support them instead of selecting the subjects for them. The free schools I know do not have a fixed curriculum but provide various classes that the kids can elect from. The teachers are also open to suggestions and ask the kids what they want to learn/do. They have no grades & all kids (generally grades 1 to 6) are together in mixed-aged groups. There are also far fewer kids per adult but that may just be a function of these being private schools. So there is no requirement to do that at home but I guess that is the most common form in the Anglophone countries (in German speaking ones it's the other way around).