When one hears the word “education” what comes to mind? The first word that should come to mind is “school”. Their all kinds of schools that are all very different from one another. There are traditional (public) schools, private schools, christian schools and much more. There has been a new kind of approach to education that has gained popularity recently, which does not involve spending time in a classroom full of students that do not want to be there. Unschooling is described as an education where people are free to choose what they would like to study, when to study it and how to study it (Morrison, 2007, p. 43). Unschooling is a form of education that needs to be understood to determine whether it is beneficial to society.
The term unschooling was created by John Holt; an author and educator from New York. Holt encouraged and supported homeschooling before developing the method of unschooling. Holt main purpose of creating this method was because he sympathized with younger kids.
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Homeschooling and unschooling is often mistaken to be the same form of education because they both take place at home instead of in traditional public schools. However, homeschooling differs greatly from unschooling. Homeschooling is defined as a form of education that is taught at home by the student’s parents (Potter, 2014, p.1). Parents say choose homeschooling because their kids still follow a structured curriculum and the parents have say in the curriculum because they are the ones that teach it. Unschooling is the total opposite, in where the role of the parent and student is reversed. The child has total say in his or her own education and only pursue’s what he or she is interested in without strict parental
The term unschooling was created by John Holt; an author and educator from New York. Holt encouraged and supported homeschooling before developing the method of unschooling. Holt main purpose of creating this method was because he sympathized with younger kids.
We who believe that children want to learn about the world, are good at it, and can be trusted to do it with very little adult coercion or interference, are …show more content…
Homeschooling and unschooling is often mistaken to be the same form of education because they both take place at home instead of in traditional public schools. However, homeschooling differs greatly from unschooling. Homeschooling is defined as a form of education that is taught at home by the student’s parents (Potter, 2014, p.1). Parents say choose homeschooling because their kids still follow a structured curriculum and the parents have say in the curriculum because they are the ones that teach it. Unschooling is the total opposite, in where the role of the parent and student is reversed. The child has total say in his or her own education and only pursue’s what he or she is interested in without strict parental