What is the Role of “Unschooling” in Homeschooling?
Unschooling is a method of learning and does not refer to the content being learned. Unschooling refers to a process of ‘self-learning.’ This is considered the process of knowing your own interests, your openness to learning about these interests, and pursuing them under your own steam. With unschooling, you create your own agenda and follow it up to learn the things that you think are integral to your interests. Unschooling is considered a subset of Homeschooling. The ‘unschoolers’ vary from the ‘homeschoolers’ by the fact that they create and manage their own learning. With regards to the history and the origin of the idea of unschooling, John Holt almost certainly coined the term. He is considered the father of unschooling. He believed that modern concepts of a grading system, fixed curriculum, and the competition that is generated as a result is counterproductive to the learning process by a child. He believed that natural methods of learning by experience and from curiosity were m
