to unschool
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8.7
- verb
- /ʌnˈskuːl/
- Jargon
:
desescolarizar
- Maya Lassiter is a writer of fantasy novels, an unschooling mom, a yogini, a former goat keeper, a yurt dweller, and an all-around cool person.
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Of course, my personality forced me to stay home and unschool the children while doing the equivalent of freelance work.
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But EdSource felt that voters unschooled in the arcane details of school finance deserve a presentation that is easier to understand than complex policy analyses but goes beyond oversimplified 30-second political messages that confuse rather than clarify.
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Recently, I decided to "unschool" my son.
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Is unschooling an abrogation of parental responsibility?
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Probably about the last person you'd expect to be unschooling, let alone radical unschooling.
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She started her journey grounded in Waldorf education, but she too had a lightbulb moment, and they decided to unschool their life through traveling.
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Sorry if this is a non sequitur, but I want to demonstrate how it can be important to unschool yourself, if you will, from academia and accept things like the fact that private sector work can be really great for minds that crave a challenge.
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I told my mother—officially (not merely hinting around)—that we were unschooling, and explained what it was.
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An alternative to the school-at-home approach for home-schooled children and their parents is unschooling, the child-led form of learning promoted and popularized by the late John Holt.
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Increasing numbers of parents are choosing to unschool their kids by letting them explore their interests freely.
Synonyms
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3.5
To teach a child at home instead of sending them to school
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3.7
To teach a child at home instead of sending them to school
To let a child learn outside school by following their interests and daily life
How Structured
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
To unschool is the verb form made from un- ('not') + school, so it literally means 'not school'. So, to unschool someone is to teach or learn outside formal classes, by following interests and everyday life.