Unschooled

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Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom

By Kerry McDonald

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Unschooled by Kerry McDonald explores the growing movement toward self-directed education. Challenging the conventional belief that schooling is essential for learning, it presents historical and contemporary research on alternatives that allow children's natural curiosity to flourish. Through stories of parents, educators, and entrepreneurs, the book illustrates diverse ways in which education can take place outside traditional, test-driven school environments.
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This book is ideal for parents, educators, and anyone interested in alternative education models and self-directed learning.

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Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. As schooling becomes increasingly standardised and test-driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives.

In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organisations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn.

They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children's natural curiosity and exuberance, and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centres to allow young people's innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.

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Praised for its thorough research and compelling argument, Unschooled is described as an invaluable and inspiring resource for those questioning institutional education. Corey DeAngelis highlights its robust evidence supporting quality education without schooling, while Patrick Farenga calls it a remarkable overview of the grassroots movement toward self-directed learning. Ben Hewitt commends it for revealing the richness of alternative educational approaches.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781641600637

Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 May 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: Chicago Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Foreword by Peter Gray

Audience: General / adult, Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 403g

Pages: 288

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Kerry McDonald Non-Fiction Parenting & Family Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Kerry McDonald is an education policy writer whose articles have appeared inForbes, Newsweek, NPR, Reason, Education Next, City Journal, andNatural Motherand Green Child magazines, among others. She has a BA in economics from Bowdoin College, a master's degree in education from Harvard Universityand is a board member at the Alliance for Self-Directed Education. The mother of four never-been-schooled children, McDonald lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and blogs at WholeFamilyLearning.com.Peter Gray, PhD, is a research professor in Boston College's Department of Psychology.