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Unschooling (also sometimes referred to as "natural learning", "child-led learning", "discovery learning", or "child-directed learning") is the term that means being responsible for your own education. Under unschooling education, parents may act as "facilitators" and may provide a wide-range of resources to their children.Proponents of unschooling have a variety of reasons to support their position. A common belief underlying their reasoning is that curiosity is innate. Some argue that institutionalizing a child in what they consider a factory model public educationpublic school, or any form of cumpulsory schooling, is an inefficient use of a child's time since it is one size fits all and is oppressive in the forcing of subjects on a child regardless of whether the child is interested. Proponents may also claim that individualized, child-led learning is more efficient and respectful of a child's time, takes advantage of a child's interests, and allows learning and exploration in depth rather than shallow coverage of a broad range of subjects. It is not what subject matter that the child learns that is important, but that the child learns how to learn and learn in depth. Given that, if later, as an adult, he finds there was some subject or nuance that he missed in his education, he will be able to acquire it on his own.The term unschooling was coined by John Holt, author of 10 books on education. John Holt founded the unschooling magazine Growing Without Schooling.A similar model is sometimes used in schools, such as the Sudbury Valley School.

Prominent unschooling advocates -

Catherine Baker

John Cadwell HoltJohn Holt

John Taylor Gatto

Grace Llewellyn

Patrick Farenga

Valerie Fitzenreiter

See also -

Summerhill School

Deschooling

Resources -

''Live Free Learn Free magazine''

''The Teenage Liberation Handbook'' by Grace Llewellyn

''The Day I Became an Autodidact'' by Kendall Hailey

''Growing Without Schooling'' defunct magazine founded by John Holt

''How Children Learn'' by John Holt

''The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School'' by Valerie Fitzenreiter

External links -

unschooling.org - Unschooling.org

ncunschoolers.com - North Carolina Unschoolers

unschooling.com - Unschooling.com, website with essays and forums

livefreelearnfree.com - Live Free Learn Free, Unschooling magazine with extensive resource section at the website

unschooling.org - History of unschooling

HoltGWS.com - Growing Without Schooling

FUN-Books.com - John Holt Bookstore

rethinkingeducation.com - Rethinking Education conference

rama.1901.org - Unschooling in France - "to live together" and not "educate" (links in English too)

freechild.org - Unschooling & Social Change

swaraj.org - Shikshantar: The People's Institute for Rethinking Education and Development

sandradodd.com - Sandra Dodd's Unschooling Website, a longtime unschooling parent's thoughts and essays

!liveandlearnconference.org - The Live and Learn Conference Website, an annual conference dedicated to radical unschooling

r.webring.com - Unschooling web ring hub

q.webring.com - Unschooler's Network web ring hub

geocities.com - unschooling resources at Pura Vida

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