Re: [AlwaysLearning] Appropriating the word Unsc hooling
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Sandra, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question, I live in Australia and would dearly love to attend your talk on the Gold Coast, how do I get more details? Thankyou
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From: "Sandra Dodd" <Sandra@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Appropriating the word Unschooling
Date: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 6:01 AM
I had an e-mail from India this morning with some quotes discouraging people from thinking unschooling is anything remotely pure or good [big paraphrase on my part; honestly, it sounded like the strident dad from Louisiana saying everything was learning and all learning was unschooling]. I saw something yesterday from Australia that was dismaying�a recommendation NOT to try to do better, and NOT to focus on children. Someone on facebook offered to recommend some "nonjudgmental unschooling" sites.
That was within 24 hours.
This is from a few weeks ago, here: "Shifting of the meaning of labels happens in politics, religion and other areas. Maybe something like that will happen with 'unschooling'. I hope we're not left with "Very Radical Unschooling", though!"
There was a time a few years ago that Dayna asked me by e-mail whether I owned the term "radical unschooling." I said I didn't.
Many times in the past week I have remembered that moment and wished I had just said "yes, I do."
But I don't like people claiming to own phrases or words. I wish others felt that way, too.
There is so much rhetoric that's cruel, to sell a position (for money or otherwise). Pro-life (dividing into life and death), rather than no-choice. I'm tired and not thinking of other examples.
It the term "unschooling" has been adopted by two magazines and a national website (in Australia) that rejected it until just very recently, it's like a huge tie has come up carrying all the gunk and junk possible, and when it goes down again, the cleanup may never be completed.
Kind of frustrating.
Still, I send out Just Add Light every night, and am planning details of in-person opportunities in Massachusetts, Lisbon/Leiden/London (and maybe The Yarrow Valley), Albuquerque, Adelaide/Melbourne/Bega/Newcastle/Gold Coast, Maine and New Hampshire. I'm going to go and speak as clearly and as persuasively as I can (and Joyse with me for much of that, and others, here and there) to people who want to really deeply understand what it is they're changing their lives to do.
If I need to call it something different, that's not evidence of more understanding in the world as a whole.
Sandra
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From: "Sandra Dodd" <Sandra@...>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Appropriating the word Unschooling
Date: Fri, Apr 19, 2013 6:01 AM
I had an e-mail from India this morning with some quotes discouraging people from thinking unschooling is anything remotely pure or good [big paraphrase on my part; honestly, it sounded like the strident dad from Louisiana saying everything was learning and all learning was unschooling]. I saw something yesterday from Australia that was dismaying�a recommendation NOT to try to do better, and NOT to focus on children. Someone on facebook offered to recommend some "nonjudgmental unschooling" sites.
That was within 24 hours.
This is from a few weeks ago, here: "Shifting of the meaning of labels happens in politics, religion and other areas. Maybe something like that will happen with 'unschooling'. I hope we're not left with "Very Radical Unschooling", though!"
There was a time a few years ago that Dayna asked me by e-mail whether I owned the term "radical unschooling." I said I didn't.
Many times in the past week I have remembered that moment and wished I had just said "yes, I do."
But I don't like people claiming to own phrases or words. I wish others felt that way, too.
There is so much rhetoric that's cruel, to sell a position (for money or otherwise). Pro-life (dividing into life and death), rather than no-choice. I'm tired and not thinking of other examples.
It the term "unschooling" has been adopted by two magazines and a national website (in Australia) that rejected it until just very recently, it's like a huge tie has come up carrying all the gunk and junk possible, and when it goes down again, the cleanup may never be completed.
Kind of frustrating.
Still, I send out Just Add Light every night, and am planning details of in-person opportunities in Massachusetts, Lisbon/Leiden/London (and maybe The Yarrow Valley), Albuquerque, Adelaide/Melbourne/Bega/Newcastle/Gold Coast, Maine and New Hampshire. I'm going to go and speak as clearly and as persuasively as I can (and Joyse with me for much of that, and others, here and there) to people who want to really deeply understand what it is they're changing their lives to do.
If I need to call it something different, that's not evidence of more understanding in the world as a whole.
Sandra
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Sandra Dodd
-=-Sandra, sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this question, I live in Australia and would dearly love to attend your talk on the Gold Coast, how do I get more details? Thankyou-=-
Two days of presentations and group discussions and it will be the first weekend of April, 2014!
The site is still being decided on.
In the three weeks before that, Joyce Fetteroll and I will be in Adelaide, Melbourne, Bega and Newcastle.
You can subscribe to this blog to get news and to register, when that's ready. I haven't been doing three-tiered registration fees, but for this one I think I might.
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com
Sandra
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Two days of presentations and group discussions and it will be the first weekend of April, 2014!
The site is still being decided on.
In the three weeks before that, Joyce Fetteroll and I will be in Adelaide, Melbourne, Bega and Newcastle.
You can subscribe to this blog to get news and to register, when that's ready. I haven't been doing three-tiered registration fees, but for this one I think I might.
http://speakingsandradodd.blogspot.com
Sandra
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