{"id":1341,"date":"2017-12-29T07:44:03","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T15:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ec2-3-13-5-244.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2023-03-16T13:45:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-16T20:45:54","slug":"what-does-unschooling-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/what-does-unschooling-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does Unschooling Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><div class=\"vc_row wpb_row vc_row-fluid single-blogpost sect2\"><div class=\"wpb_column vc_column_container vc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t<div class=\"wpb_text_column wpb_content_element\" >\n\t\t<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<h2>\u201cUltimately, unschooling \u201clooks like\u201d young people pursuing their own dreams with assistance from those who love and support them!\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Author John Holt coined the term \u201cunschooling\u201d in the 1970s when he started to advocate removing children from school and educating them in a manner that would be the opposite of school: no compulsion, no prescribed curriculum, no bells to start and stop learning. Through the years, other terms have been used, such as interest-based learning, child-led learning and relaxed homeschooling.<\/p>\n<p>West River Academy Director Peggy Webb stresses to people who call her that unschooling is a way of honoring children and their reason for being on Planet Earth right now. Allowing the child to continue his or her curiosity-driven interests results in learning that is valuable and practical to the student. The ultimate benefactors of a student that is engaged in activities he or she is passionate about is us; the world benefits from what this person will contribute to our global community.<\/p>\n<p>As Peggy likes to say, \u201cThink of it as putting the child in the driver\u2019s seat of the car. The parent is in the passenger\u2019s seat, making sure the car is not driven off a cliff, being the navigator with map in hand, letting the driver know what appears to be up ahead, etc. The child is then free to take the interstate or go off on a scenic byway, explore different places along the way or get to the destination as fast as he or she can. It\u2019s letting the child drive the car while the parent offers guidance and assures safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if I\u2019m practicing unschooling and my child wants to go to public school?\u201d is a question often asked. Peggy responds, \u201cIf your child chooses to attend school, then he or she is still in the driver\u2019s seat, making that decision. Unschooling, then, takes on the form of going to school. The child knows that at any time he or she can decide to stop going to school; he has chosen to have this learning experience. It\u2019s really no different than the child\u2019s deciding to take ballet lessons. I gave my daughter, Rachel, the freedom to choose how she wanted to learn and she chose a variety of experiences during her childhood, including a part-time charter school, boarding school and full-time public high school. To me, it was all unschooling because she was in charge and I assisted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, unschooling \u201clooks like\u201d young people pursuing their own dreams with assistance from those who love and support them!<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUltimately, unschooling \u201clooks like\u201d young people pursuing their own dreams with assistance from those who love and support them!\u201d Author John Holt coined the term \u201cunschooling\u201d in the 1970s when he started to advocate removing children from school and educating them in a manner that would be the opposite of school: no compulsion, no prescribed [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english_post","category-whats-new"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westriveracademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}