[D66] Unschooling

[R.O.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unschooling

Unschooling
 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Unschooling is an informal learning that advocates learner-chosen 
activities as a primary means for learning. Unschooling students learn 
through their natural life experiences including play, household 
responsibilities, personal interests and curiosity, internships and work 
experience, travel, books, elective classes, family, mentors, and social 
interaction. Unschooling encourages exploration of activities initiated 
by the children themselves, believing that the more personal learning 
is, the more meaningful, well-understood and therefore useful it is to 
the child. While courses may occasionally be taken, unschooling 
questions the usefulness of standard curricula, conventional grading 
methods, and other features of traditional schooling in the education of 
each unique child.

The term "unschooling" was coined in the 1970s and used by educator John 
Holt, widely regarded as the father of unschooling.[1] While unschooling 
is often considered a subset of homeschooling and homeschooling has been 
subject to widespread public debate, little media attention has been 
given to unschooling in particular.

Critics of unschooling see it as an extreme educational philosophy, with 
concerns that unschooled children will lack the social skills, 
structure, and motivation of their schooled peers, while proponents of 
unschooling say exactly the opposite is true: that self-directed 
education in a natural environment better equips a child to handle the 
"real world."[2]