pelirojita

Hello,

I am honestly trying to search the archives before I post questions,
but the search function seems a bit unwieldy at best.

Could someone explain the difference between unschooling and radical
unschooling? Or direct me to a website that addresses this question.

Thanks in advance,
Kerry

Debra Rossing

The simplest answer is that unschooling is removing the school paradigm
educationally - trusting that children will learn to read, add, etc. as
they need to in their own time and their own ways. "Radical"
unschooling, aka whole life unschooling among other alternate
appellations, is extending that trust to the rest of life - sleep, food,
hygiene, clothing, media (TV, computers, videogames, and such like
that), etc.

Deb


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pelirojita

Thank you! I didn't realize all of this discussion on diet and TV was
in the RU category, though it makes sense.

Removing the school paradigm makes a huge amount of sense to me. I
teach at large public university and must spend a significant amount
of time getting my students to understand how to take the initiative
in their own education and to learn how to learn. The major
impediment to student success at my university is - a complete
inability to manage one's time - because students have never been
responsible for their own time before. Unschooling, in my mind, would
avoid this "learned helplessness."

Some of the parenting discussion has been really interesting as I have
never really seen this type of parenting, but am already changing some
of my approach and the resulting payoff in an improved relationsihp
with my son has been amazing.

Thank you for the clarification,
Kerry

--- In [email protected], "Debra Rossing"
<debra.rossing@...> wrote:
>
> The simplest answer is that unschooling is removing the school paradigm
> educationally - trusting that children will learn to read, add, etc. as
> they need to in their own time and their own ways. "Radical"
> unschooling, aka whole life unschooling among other alternate
> appellations, is extending that trust to the rest of life - sleep, food,
> hygiene, clothing, media (TV, computers, videogames, and such like
> that), etc.
>
> Deb
>
>
>