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	Unschooling Defined - A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling Methods
		The term "unschooling" was coined by John Holt to mean not sending children to school.
		This is the unschooling "office" of Sandra Dodd, of Albuquerque.
		Unschooling, a homeschooling method based on the belief that kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities and interests, is practiced by 10 to 15 percent of the estimated 1.5 million homeschoolers in the United States.
	homeschooling.gomilpitas.com /methods/Unschooling.htm (541 words)

	Unschooling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unschooling (also sometimes referred to as "natural learning", "child-led learning", "discovery learning", "autodidactic learning", or "child-directed learning") is the term that means being responsible for your own education.
		The term unschooling was coined by John Holt.
		A model similar to unschooling, using the child-led learning approach, is sometimes used in schools, such as the Sudbury Valley School.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Unschooling (713 words)

	How to Use the Whole World as Your Child’s Classroom
		Unschooling is easier for parents because they need not plan lessons or grade tests but more difficult in that learning is ever-present and collaborative.
		Unschooled children may adapt well to courses where instruction is “sequenced to develop physical skills” such as with ballet or martial arts.
		Unschooled children are more in touch with themselves and have a fire to learn that can otherwise be vanquished in school.
	www.educationreformbooks.net /unschooling.htm (1003 words)

	What is Unschooling? - The Natural Child Project
		Unschooling isn't a method, it is a way of looking at children and at life.
		Unschooling does not mean that parents can never teach anything to their children, or that children should learn about life entirely on their own without the help and guidance of their parents.
		Unschooling does not mean that parents give up active participation in the education and development of their children and simply hope that something good will happen.
	www.naturalchild.com /guest/earl_stevens.html (1787 words)

	Homeschool Zone Unschooling Home-Ed Support Center
		Unschooling, child-led learning, free learning, interest based education, child-delighted learning - These are the many names that are used to describe unschooling.
		Unschooling is a process, and I'm still working on setting myself free from the ideas ingrained through my years of public school education.
		Unschooling parents discover that there are many ways that different children learn the same things, that each child's view of the world is unique, and that choice of methods, tools, etc., can be in constant change.
	www.homeschoolzone.com /unschooling (1792 words)

	Ideas: The Case for Unschooling
		It seems to me that the combined weakness and strength of unschooling is that it depends heavily on the child (and the parent's ability to inspire enthusiasm).
		Unschooling seems like it would work if the parents are more educated than the teachers of the schools that the kids have a choice of attending.
		The problem we found with unschooling was that the lack of structure meant that very often both the children and their mother felt as though they were just drifting along without much progress.
	daviddfriedman.blogspot.com /2006/02/case-for-unschooling.html (8170 words)

	Unschooling or Homeschooling? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unschooling has become associated with the particular style of homeschooling in which no set curriculum is used.
		The reason that unschooling is hard to explain and hard for some people to understand, is that it is not a technique that can be broken down to a step by step process.
		As unschooling gains acceptance and its effectiveness is recognized, the dictionaries will have to be corrected to re~ect the positive aspects of someone who has been educated by unschooling.
	web-enrichment.com /hsf/unschooling.html (1118 words)

	unschooling 101 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unschooling looks differently in different families in the same way that life unfolds differently.
		With young children unschooling looks like a natural extension of the parents' life because that's what it is. Unschooling parents involve children in their lives and their own learning, and the children naturally pick up from there and begin to explore their own avenues.
		I think it's useful to show unschooling with young kids since so many stories tend to be about older kids, and I think it will be neat to see how things evolve as the kids get older.
	www.danielleconger.com /Homeschool/Unschooling_101.html (2843 words)

	Unschooling :: thetyee.ca
		Unschooling, also known as "independent learning" or "experience-based learning," differs from conventional homeschooling, where a student will generally follow a set curriculum, which is often based directly on the public school system's program.
		Instead, unschooling students are encouraged to find the path that works best for them, and empowers them to choose their own intellectual destinies.
		Above all, unschooling is about letting students explore their environments for themselves, with guidance, encouragement, and a wide array of resources provided by parents.
	thetyee.ca /Views/2005/12/16/Unschooling (12532 words)

	Unschooling-List FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unschooling is the belief that all people, no matter how old or young, have a built in desire to learn (unless that desire has been crushed by outside forces).
		Unschooling has nothing to do with tools that one may use to learn something, it is pure technique.
		For most families, though, it is the process of unschooling that "convinces" them of its appropriateness for them, as over the course of time you see what has happened.
	user.mc.net /~kwentz/ULfaq.shtml (4801 words)

	What Is Unschooling? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unschooling has many, many definitions - probably a different one for each family that calls themselves unschoolers.
		Others unschool totally until their child reaches a certain grade level, and then start requiring some structure.
		I find that one of the hardest things with unschooling is learning to trust that your child will learn what he needs to know for his own life, in his own time frame.
	www.pipeline.com /~wdkmg/homeschool/WhatIsUnschooling.htm (465 words)

	vens "vivre ensemble /unschooling" - vens homeschooling
		Unschooling is a word coined by negating the idea of schooling; it starts off with a negative definition.
		Unschooling is centered around the idea of learning, with the student as the center of action and the source of activity, rather than on the idea of teaching (with the teacher as the center of action and the source of activity).
		Unschooling families do not set up miniature classrooms, with time set aside for studying, a parent playing the role of teacher, formal lesson plans and imposed curricula.
	www.rama.1901.org /vens/word-fr.htm (1017 words)

	Unschooling Undefined - Jon's Homeschool Resources
		Unschooling is a word coined by negating the idea of schooling; it starts off with a negative definition.
		The unschooling literature abounds with stories of children who paid no attention to math or reading for their first ten years and then caught up in just a few weeks.
		Unschooling is centered around the idea of learning, with the student as the center of action and the source of activity, rather than on the idea of teaching (with the teacher as the center of action and the source of activity).
	www.midnightbeach.com /hs/UnschoolingUndefined.html (950 words)

	Unschooling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unschooling Rural Oasis--The Winona Farm describes itself as "A place for unschoolers who are interested in a healthy outdoor lifestyle, to visit a few hours, months, or years."
		Vegesource Unschooling is a message board that can be used to ask questions or swap ideas.
		NZ Unschoolers is Restricted to those who are unschooling in New Zealand.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/8259/unskool.html (404 words)

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		But those who practice unschooling tend to do so because they believe the school system, be it public or even expensive private, does not allow children to learn to their full potential.
		Rules on unschooling differ among states with some requiring children to take standardized tests to measure progress, others asking only that forms be filed with the state and some requiring nothing.
		While "unschooled" children may have regular social contact with peers who are involved in more traditional schooling, there appears to be a gap of understanding about their differing circumstances.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0306/unschooling.php3 (2006 words)

	Education Week: ‘Unschooling’ Stresses Curiosity More Than Traditional Academics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		For instance, she said, an unschooling parent who never liked science might de-emphasize the subject because of those feelings or a lack of knowledge about it.
		The term “unschooling” was coined by the late John Holt, one of the godfathers of the home-schooling movement, who wrote a stack of books about alternative ways of educating children.
		Sandra Dodd, a longtime advocate of unschooling who lives in Albuquerque, N.M., and whose two children never attended a traditional school, said when her oldest child was of school age she believed he was already soaking up more on his own than he would in kindergarten.
	www.edweek.org /ew/articles/2006/12/20/16unschool.h26.html?levelId=1000&rale2=KQE5d7nM%2FXAYPsVRXwnFWYRqIIX2bhy1%2BKNA5buLAWGoKt77XHI2terRpWBSgktL4bXgTCDsilFm%0A%2F0kPAX9PyLriHWAnCp2bD3J7sHTw6hTh%2F9BFEakU7ZHII%2Fmu01CUEpLNhfZ%2FY5RTSAFMoROfwTsH%0AAsyDLJnT9czpjKHi7khQUPRB5iYdt7RtfDVNnzT1Qf518Sp9FTafBF7mg8pd9DJCFxxplKHfPeDE%0AGvcMbYQbWuFiTPZIN4SrVNOpQdeBEmNiFbD7juREd%2Bg5AG9CRuuRQgjK06%2FjVI2zBGZWBWNW6Ecv%0AM0MhzyZkqRJwX5MbU9QNFzUP0ioueoHKpyK4YdMzi7LOhAqRXB8cUqYZNuViQLA166lNA16GyB4a%0A%2F7hiL57hSAqofQn%2F9%2BGs%2FxW8zAiaH1OBCnb2hKtU06lB14HUlQc1E6sMZ%2BTTWxScydIhxRk%2Ff51e%0AzilxhDQLU3Aca6AWAQHbpUQ9NNslo%2F5lA8ET6FeFV6mSjHGENAtTcBxrxgf9nEhov82mAE5GC82o%0Ab1g%2BkCV6dXqHh3V1sl%2BNFkt8SPY5khM4YdSly3tN8Q9mFSMvj78W%2FixJDx8429lHUdsSCL%2BK19V1%0A2G2ilKsDXspH%2FpYRHnWKPgEviOk0d2S8mBL90J1C2wcEMZ7RRzz69PcHBTueMN4TGWnP%2FZZeZg25%0A6EpSgFZ9QSYN96EAbOODlVA0B9qsbeQWEQAoC%2F35kOXi%2F4R96xMDKjnExOzP0qe16wmQjvwjT02l%0AYqKIbn%2BPjXvfLhbHi2SFnTCJqOz61ZKclgwgkBrrwbChLtaGgefhvbrroOyCWgnNgmGPgpn6GTTA%0Aei3semVVxBglp (1656 words)

	Day Blog (schoolyard subversion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unschooling is a phenomenon that is still relatively small, but steadily growing.
		Various studies that the book cites show that unschooled children are perfectly successful in the "real world" and almost always do better on standardized tests than their schooled peers -- even when they've never cracked a textbook or taken a conventional course.
		Unschooling is not only a change -- it's a tidal wave knocking out all that we know and believe about the school system and providing a vastly different -- and better -- alternative.
	www.aaronsw.com /school/2001/04/05 (1776 words)

	Unschooling
		Unschooling is life as a child would live it, unencumbered by society's 'shoulds'; with wonder and spontaneity, curiosity and imagination.
		Unschooling, for me, is to resist the culture of schooling.
		Unschooling is first, removing all aspects of what you thought you needed to learn and teach, and choosing those things that you actually do need.
	www.ubpub.com /unschooling.html (150 words)

	Unschooling Blogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A blog about life and living with two children, one husband, a cat, a dog, a bunch of tadpoles and sticklebacks and nemotodes and any other pond life that we picked up at the beginning of the summer 2005 and are planning to return shortly, and the occasional hedgehog.
		Thoughts on being a semi-crazy unschooling mom of two, triathlete, writer, musician, and on unschooling and educational discourse in general.
		Unschooling is a type of homeschooling in which we follow our interests and joys and the learning in turn follows along too.
	www.ringsurf.com /netring?action=info&ring=Unschooling_Blogs (1221 words)

	The Home School Learning Network, Unschooling
		His basic message was to "unschool" their children, a parent only needs to allow the child to direct his own learning through his interests and provide the child with educational experiences and materials.
		The philosophy behind the unschooling approach is that the child learns and retains much more when allowed to follow interests, share in real life experiences and exploration.
		The unschooling method is the most unstructured of all of the homeschooling methods and philosophies.
	www.homeschoollearning.com /approaches/unschooling.shtml (621 words)

	USNews.com: Opinion: Bonnie Erbe: To the Contrary: Unspooling 'Unschooling'
		If a 6-year-old wants to play with a box on top of her head for an hour, that is as qualitatively beneficial a learning experience as an hour of Latin, according to unschoolers–perhaps even more beneficial.
		By some estimates, 20,000 American children are unschooling themselves as the latest form of education, or, shall we say, uneducation.
		The Family Unschoolers Network describes the goal of unschooling thus: "Our primary purpose in unschooling is to keep alive the spark of curiosity and the natural love of learning with which all children are born." Fair enough.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/erbeblog/archive/061127/unspooling_unschooling.htm (507 words)

	True Blue Semi-Crunchy Mama :: Unschooling :: December :: 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		I have been asked a few times recently (by Eryn, Sarah, and Karen) what “unschooling” is. My definition is that unschooling is a philosophy of homeschooling, where you follow the child and not a curriculum.
		Unschooling is a challenge because without a formal curriculum, you have to really concentrate on making sure all of the areas get covered (eventually) within a reasonable time frame for the age/grade.
		Montessori education is a lot like unschooling - kids learn at their own pace, setting their own curriculum per say, and with only 3 students per teacher, I think she will get the help she needs.
	running2ks.blogsome.com /2005/12/21/unschooling (2258 words)

	Unschooling Information
		Pulling a child from school and transitioning to unschooling.
		Choosing an unschooling lifestyle can mean feeling different from others.
		A place for unschooled kids to meet, make friends, compare notes, and have fun.
	www.unschooling.info /forum (377 words)

	Unschooling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Unschooling is part of a larger movement toward truly individualized home-based education.
		Although this book is not about unschooling specifically, it covers many of the same issues that are of concern to unschoolers and looks at them from the perspectives of schools.
		Let them know about âthe unschooling movementâ and that there are great resources, like Mary Griffithâs Unschooling Handbook, to support them as they lament the struggles of moving away from industrialized, assembly line education.
	www.pathsoflearning.net /library/unschooling.cfm (1612 words)

	Unschooling Misconceptions
		Then the person who finds them playing the video games, who probably was against unschooling in the first place, tars all unschoolers with the same brush and makes a blanket statement, "All unschoolers do is allow their children to play video games and watch TV all day.
		Unschooled children are completely responsible for their own education and parents never help their children learn.
		Unschooling parents are too lazy to take the time to sit down and teach their children.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/unschooling_retired/38394/1 (437 words)

	CNN.com - No school, no books, no teacher's dirty looks - Feb 2, 2006
		An extension of home-schooling, "unschooling" is when parents give their children total freedom to learn and explore whatever they choose.
		According to Holt Associates, an "unschooling" advocacy group, in 2005, about 150,000 children were unschooled, about 10 percent of the estimated 1.5 million home-schooled children in the United States.
		While "unschooling" could be characterized as the ultimate indulgence by a parent, Nailah's stay-at-home mother, Barbara Ellis, doesn't see it that way.
	www.cnn.com /2006/US/01/27/gutierrez.unschooing/index.html (557 words)

	Catallarchy » Unschooling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		While homeschooling has its share of critics, unschooling - perhaps the most controversial approach to homeschooling - is a completely foreign idea to most.
		The Browns are part of an approach to education that is called “unschooling” and allows children to pursue what interests them, rather than trying to make them interested in things that interest others.
		Most trace the origins of unschooling to an approach devised by educator John Holt in the 1970s.
	catallarchy.net /blog/archives/2006/03/17/unschooling (1679 words)

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