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Unschooling the Next Generation

Often referred to as "homeschooling", "unschooling" is an alternative education practice that rejects the rigid institutional demands of a traditional educational environments.

What is "unschooling"?   Does our new generation benefit from this form of learning?   Is it a more natural learning process?   What do the students have to say about learning this way?

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Spontaneity, courage-via-curiosity, and having a sense of adventure are but a few traits by which childrens' learning experiences are naturally heightened. Our creative guidance requires that WE (the adult world) are able to metaphorically SEE through the eyes of children.

Here, I happened to be traveling by ocean ferry...and while boarding the vessel, I caught a glimpse of a Mother and her two children carrying 'a box'...

My intuition rang out to investigate.This cute-little-fart is the runt of two litters.

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Reflect Circles: Realities of Change
Reflect Circles: Realities of Change
Reflect Circles: Realities of Change is a locally-produced documentary showing the lives of women involved in Reflect Ci...
Voices from the New American Schoolhouse
Voices from the New American Schoolhouse explores life outside the usual educational box. Narrated exclusively by studen...
On Home Schooling - by Stephen Downes
In this 15 minute video Stephen Downes outlines his criticisms of home schooling and describe success factors for an alt...
What I like about Homeschooling
The Laural Springs School recently held a competition on You Tube called Why Homeschool is Cool Video Contest. The re...
Inventing a Girl
Inventing a Girl
Lily Borenstein-Burd and her brother Russell have never attended school.   They are among the growing number of kids th...
Summerhill - clip 2
Summerhill - clip 2
A visit to a school without fixed rules, where students study as they wish, and are their own masters. A co-educational ...
Summerhill  Clip 1
Summerhill Clip 1
A visit to a school without fixed rules, where students study as they wish, and are their own masters. A co-educational ...
Looking Back with Kate Cayley
Looking Back with Kate Cayley
Kate Cayley grew up "unschooled" in Toronto. Here she reflects on her experience learning outside formal institutional ...
un-schooling and socialization:neighbourhood views
un-schooling and socialization:neighbourhood views
Are un-schooling kids misfits? We asked some neighbourhood school kids for their opinion. 1 minute 55 seconds inte...
un-schooling: learning free
un-schooling: learning free
An unschooling family examines the pressure to schedule "school" time at home, or to leave things more open-ended. I...
the nature of unschooling: experience learning
the nature of unschooling: experience learning
Early in an exploration of life outside of schools, an unschooling parent ponders about what is more natural for a young...
5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
Gever Tulley, founder of the Tinkering School, spells out 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do....
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Gumdrop Geometry
Inventing a Girl - Video Thumbnail
feeling froggy
kitty love
Kitty Corner Zine
Kitty Corner Zine
cat design
outdoor ed
living it is a seamless thing
garden time
table talk
filling in time
sands of time
edits every week
evelyna tent broadcast sept 2005
we make the path by walking
  • A Radio Free School show for Canada Day
  • Ep. 78 - Learning Outside the System
  • Outting School with John Taylor Gatto
  • Union for Children's Rights
  • Aldort: Parenting Under the Fire of Criticism
  • Education Can Lead the Way to a Sustainable Society
  • Here and Now, Equality and democracy in Montreal public schools
  • Interview with Unschooled Filmmaker, Astra Taylor
  • Is homeschooling a threat to public schools?
  • Is Un-Schooling Right for Your Child?
  • Life learning with Wendy Priesnitz
  • Narratives of Dignity
  • Natural Born Learners
  • Play, Nature's way of learning
  • Save It For Me
  • The declaration for equality in education
  • The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rocks the Boat
  • The Union for Children’s Rights
  • Thoughts on Unschooling
  • We Made This!: Media for a New Generation - a CITIZENShift event
  • AuthenticParent.com
  • Challenging the Myths of Modern Schooling
  • Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader
  • Holistic Education
  • Home School Legal Defence Association of Canada
  • I Want to Do This All Day
  • L'école à la maison
  • Life Learning
  • Montreal Homelearners
  • Pros and Cons of Homeschooling
  • Purple Thistle Centre
  • Socialization: a key critique to Homeschooling
  • The Alternative Education Resource Organization
  • The National Home Education Research Institute
  • Unschooling - An Overview
  • Unschooling Canada
  • We Love Life
  • Wondertree Foundation for Natural Learning

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