With the kinds of resources available online today, I _assume_ it would be easier than ever to pursue STEM knowledge and experience while unschooling, but your survey would actually have the data. This is actually such a big thing in our lives that I gave it its own five-day series in July 2012! We should be concerned about that for all children. You report relatively high levels of job satisfaction, matching childhood interests, and seeking higher education, but from reading your blog, I have no idea whether these are also characteristic of all unschoolers, of all who are homeschooled, or of the general population. Twenty-eight of the 75 respondents reported no disadvantage at all. --- Again, thank you for getting us to look at this question. Twenty-one of the 33 took community college courses before applying to a four-year college and used their community college transcript as a basis for admission. I want to make the general point that all studies of this nature must be interpreted cautiously, as I pointed out in the article. After all, school is where teachers work, and it is teachers who help them learn. Those in the always-unschooled group were more likely to go on to a bachelor's degree than those in the other groups. To mitigate this, did you attempt any method of recruitment aside from posting on your blog and others like it? I'm looking forward to reading more of the study. What is generally far better received by the kids is for the parents to find out about as many opportunities for structured activities outside the home as possible, and strongly encourage their children to choose one or two (or more) to participate in - or at least, to try. Surprisingly enough, unschooling is a legal practice in many places around the world. I'm female & working in web design/development, so I guess it's like a cross between visual arts and IT. Addition to comment, June 20, 2014. The key difference between unschooling and homeschooling is how each approaches learning. the University of South Carolina and UCLA) to an Ivy League university (Cornell) to a variety of small liberal-arts colleges (e.g. It is a vehicle by which unschoolers who are happy with their experience could tell us and others about how they managed that experience-- how they went to college and adapted there if they chose to do that; what kinds of careers they have gone on to and how they are managing those careers; what they liked and didn't like about unschooling. Her site includes, among other things, a list of blogs by teenage and grown unschoolers and a collection of interviews of grown unschoolers. It's and incentive for all of us to find what makes us tick and make it happen. They don't want to preclude the possibility of college, should the young person eventually want it, so they want to know if college is possible and, if so, how does it happen. Re: careers and interests, my 2 girls were both pretty much unschooled. 11. The challenges they described had to do primarily with having to defend their unschooling practices to those who did not understand them or disapproved of them, and with overcoming some of their own culturally-ingrained, habitual ways of thinking about education. Was all that sport just wasting time? Can't wait to read more. I take some comfort from your words and results of this study. For much more about the human nature of self-determined education, see Free to Learn. A careful coding might change the percentages from what I presented here, but it is very unlikely to change the overall conclusion.]. “It has to be non-intrusive and inoffensive, but it is not unreasonable to ask carers to explain what they’re doing and why.”, The Educator speaks to Seven Steps CEO Jen McVeity to find out, Today, Australian schools celebrate the efforts of their frontline workers, An educational psychologist provides some tips on how senior students can study effectively, The Educator Mental Health for Schools Masterclass. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) education lecturer, Rebecca English, told ABC News that there is little data available in Australia on unschooling, but a 2014 parliamentary inquiry that found home-schooled students out-performed mainstream school students across literacy and numeracy in all year levels. Indeed, the only way get at that that in a scientifically valid way would be to conduct an experiment, and that is impossible--we can't randomly assign some young people to "uscnooling," others to "homeschooling," etc.. Overall, 36 (48%) of the participants were pursuing such careers. 14. for the phrase "self-determined learning." Apparently, the lack of an imposed curriculum had not deprived them of information or skills needed for college success. Besides any biases that stem from who, among unschoolers, chose to respond to the survey, there are biases that come from the initial choice to unschool. Research Analyst, CRHE Then I found out about books by John Holt, Ivan Illich, John Taylor Gatto, etc, and devoured everything I could in between classes. I only mention this because of the people in the study who were unhappy about the isolation of unschooling. Students who had never previously been in a classroom or read a textbook found themselves getting straight A’s and earning honors, both in community college courses and in bachelor’s programs. Your question leads me to think we should do that, and perhaps we will before final publication. requiring, inter alia, challenging material) had made school his life unbearable and so he eventually dropped out two years ago, despite getting "amazing in the circumstances" exams results. It's interesting to see that the adjustment is not difficult, despite what the school personnel might think. My son moved out when he started college, and has been living in apartments with roommates, working part-time and supporting himself ever since. As a fellow researcher of homeschooling, of which unschoolers are a subset, I wish that you had included a matched control group of either public-schoolers or curriculum-based homeschoolers, so that I had a baseline for interpreting the results of your study against non-unschoolers. More specifically, they do not establish a curriculum for their children, do not require their children to do particular assignments for the purpose of education, and do not test their children to measure progress. An informal education, as the information shows, might actually be better. The problem that many seem to have with unschooling is that it is so different than what other formal programs of education provide. States and nations that have laws against this option (as so many do), should reconsider! 20. In many cases the relationship was direct. For the creative child, there might not be a better way to learn in the world today. There is no doubt home educated students are doing at least as well as their public school peers. Peter, I just wanted to add my 2 cents to agree with you about the importance of "self-determined learning". What we can say is this: "Hey, here's a group of people who didn't go to school and seem to be doing just fine in life--they are going on to higher education if they choose; they are supporting themselves in jobs they claim to love; and they are very happy with the decision not to attend school in K-12 (or some part of that)." Two of the respondents to our survey were really angry about their unschooling experiences and both said they wanted to go to school but weren't allowed to. Only 7 of the 33 reported taking the SAT or ACT tests as a route to college admission. To mitigate this, did you attempt any method of recruitment aside from posting on your blog and others like it? I hope you’ll check out five days of real-world math. As I wrote in my first comment (my apologies for leaving out "it"), the key is to write a convincing transcript. My point is not that people, kids or not, unschooled or not, cannot spend their time in unhealthy ways, or even that homeschooled children are never neglected. I never *imposed* these structured activities on him, but I made an effort to find out about all the opportunities available to homeschoolers, within a 20 mile radius of our home, and I supported and encouraged my kids to choose something to participate in! You can find the reference to my blog posts and to our published article on that study in the introduction to the present post.
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