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  Unschooling and Deschooling are Different

  Posted by Administrator on September 21, 2020 at 5:10 pm

  The similarity in the words can make people think they mean the same thing, when in fact, unschooling and deschooling are two different things. Deschooling is recognized as a transition from school, and homeschoolers of all stripes recognize that honoring time “to deschool” is important. We don’t need to follow school rules at home, and even parents need to come to grips with the idea that homeschooling is not school.

  Unschooling, on the other hand, can be seen as one of many styles or approaches to homeschooling, as you can read in our Beginners’ Guide to Unschooling. Sometimes, as a result of deschooling, families land on unschooling as their approach to homeschooling. (That said, many will argue unschooling is a lifestyle rather than a homeschooling style.) This typically means that children will learn naturally, according to their own curiosity, with active parent partners to facilitate their learning. The parents won’t prescribe textbooks, curriculum, quizzes, worksheets or tests, but they will support real-world learning that naturally occurs outside of school: projects, reading, writing, creating, experimenting, observing, and more. Parents don’t coerce or require academics if they are unschoolers, but they do provide rich experiences such as library visits, read-alouds, things to build with, opportunities to pretend, resources other than curriculum, and more.

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