Unschooling Approach

Unschooling or delight directed learning can be regarded as the opposite education philosophy from conventional schooling. Unschoolers commonly believe that curiosity is innate and that children want to learn. Where schooling implies that one is making a group of children all behave in the same way and learn the same things, unschooling is about letting children follow their own direction and allowing them to learn through a process of discovery and exploration.

In delight-directed learning, there is no scope and sequence in which to learn "the facts." Rather, the facts are acquired as a subject is developed from the child's interests.

There are many ways to incorporate the unschooling method at home – some may be more formal (starting a unit study) and some very informal (providing books, field trips, opportunities for discussion, paper and supplies).

Books

“How Children Learn” by John Holt
“Unschooling Handbook” by Mary Griffith
“Learning all the time” by John Holt
“Free Range Education: How Home Education Works” by Terri Dowty
“The Unschooling Unmanual” by Nanda Van Gestel, Jan Hunt, Daniel Quinn, and Rue Kream

Articles

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