Re: Luz and Ned's Q&A
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All good answers --- are they "expecting" the radical unschooling point of
view? I'm also giving a talk this week (along with someone else) to people
just considering homeschooling and we always struggle with how much to make
it unschooling-based versus how much to just be more objective and tell them
about all the different ways homeschoolers homeschool. In my case, they are
definitely NOT expecting an unschooling talk. They've probably never heard of
such ideas. So, clearly, we'll talk about it -- but .....
Some of your answers were kind of amusing --- especially this one:
A. It doesn't matter. <<
And THIS is so important!!!!!!
<<HINT: It will never be algebra or french or social studies or etc,
etc. It will be airplanes, or dinosaurs or money or the sky or etc, etc.>>
THIS is something I think we forget to tell people -- I remember that it took
me forever to catch on that with unschooling, my kids were probably NEVER
going to say: "Okay - now I'm interested in social studies," <G>. In fact,
they were probably never going to say, "I'd like to study American history,"
even. They'd just DO it -- pick it up from everything going on around them -
from movies and reading and discussions and happenstance and music and so on.
What they'd be passionately interested in would be very specific and
idiosyncratic such as Gilbert and Sullivan musicals or female folk singers of
the 1960's or how surfboards were made in the 50's and 60's or how guns
worked during the civil war period. Even those unschooled kids I know who
develop an interest in, say, "American History," have a very very specific
kind of history they are interested in - military history, for example.
I think a lot of people THINK we're telling them that, if they let their kids
have real freedom to choose, their kids will regain their love of learning
(which is true), and that they'll choose to learn the same kinds of things in
the same kinds of ways that schools try to teach (which is highly unlikely).
--pamS
view? I'm also giving a talk this week (along with someone else) to people
just considering homeschooling and we always struggle with how much to make
it unschooling-based versus how much to just be more objective and tell them
about all the different ways homeschoolers homeschool. In my case, they are
definitely NOT expecting an unschooling talk. They've probably never heard of
such ideas. So, clearly, we'll talk about it -- but .....
Some of your answers were kind of amusing --- especially this one:
>>13. How do you choose which homeschool resources, books, and curricula touse, and where do you get them?
A. It doesn't matter. <<
And THIS is so important!!!!!!
<<HINT: It will never be algebra or french or social studies or etc,
etc. It will be airplanes, or dinosaurs or money or the sky or etc, etc.>>
THIS is something I think we forget to tell people -- I remember that it took
me forever to catch on that with unschooling, my kids were probably NEVER
going to say: "Okay - now I'm interested in social studies," <G>. In fact,
they were probably never going to say, "I'd like to study American history,"
even. They'd just DO it -- pick it up from everything going on around them -
from movies and reading and discussions and happenstance and music and so on.
What they'd be passionately interested in would be very specific and
idiosyncratic such as Gilbert and Sullivan musicals or female folk singers of
the 1960's or how surfboards were made in the 50's and 60's or how guns
worked during the civil war period. Even those unschooled kids I know who
develop an interest in, say, "American History," have a very very specific
kind of history they are interested in - military history, for example.
I think a lot of people THINK we're telling them that, if they let their kids
have real freedom to choose, their kids will regain their love of learning
(which is true), and that they'll choose to learn the same kinds of things in
the same kinds of ways that schools try to teach (which is highly unlikely).
--pamS