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Allow Time to Deschool
© Beverley Paine
It can take over a year to adjust to homeschooling after bringing a child home from school. It's necessary to rethink the whole idea of education. Classroom learning is geared to educate thirty children with one teacher. It's not impossible, but it's difficult and frustrating to simply transfer classroom teaching and learning approaches directly to the home setting.In addition, there's a good chance that the child has had her natural desire to learn, as well as her creativity and imagination quashed. She will need time to detox, take a vacation, have some down time - or all three!
The parent needs to deschool as well. For most of us the only educational approach we've known is some kind of school - institutionalised learning. We're used to the idea that education is a passive 'they teach and we learn' kind of thing. Educators, even in schools, know this is only a tiny part of what really happens. We need to update our notions about constitutes an education. The easiest way to do this is to talk to other homeschooling families, hang out with them, and see for ourselves how children learn outside of a school setting.
Some of the myths about education we must dispel are:
- It cannot take place without a university trained and qualified educator
- It has to take place in a classroom or classroom environment, with desks, texts or workbooks
- It takes place Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
- It stops when we graduate from high school
- Children must learn certain concepts in a predetermined manner
- Children must learn certain concepts at a specified age
- Children cannot learn without a qualified educator to hold their hand and guide them through the learning process
See Deschooling Defined for more information.
Some books I recommend for parents are:
- Challenging Assumptions in Education
- Dumbing us Down
- Self University
- Creating Learning Communities
- Punished by Rewards
Beverley Paine is a mother of three young adults and a prolific writer of homeschooling articles. More articles and essays can be found in her books, available from the Always Learning Books online bookstore.
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Pioneering members of the home education movement in Australia,
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are passionate advocates of true educational choice for families.
They began homeschooling in 1986 and three years later started the
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network. Beverley continues to write for homeschooling newsletters
and magazines as well as hosting several websites dedicated to promoting
and supporting home education in Australia. Her aim is to demystify the
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"Education is not a preparation for life. Education is life itself." John Dewey
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