-------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:43:50 -0500 To: •••@••.••• From: "Chris Glavin" <•••@••.•••> Subject: Deschooling Hi, My name is Chris Glavin. I run a website devoted to providing resourceful information for a number of topics in education and disabilities and disorders. I have created an information page for Deschooling under the Alternative Education section of my website. Please take a moment out of your day to visit the page. If you would like to help in any way please do not hesitate to contact me. I am always looking for individuals interested in providing articles, resources or have provide services for Deschooling. Thanks! Chris Glavin K12academics.com -------------------------------------------------------- http://www.k12academics.com/deschooling.htm Deschooling is a term used by both education philosophers and proponents of alternative education and/or home schooling, which refers to different things in each context. It was popularized by Ivan Illich in his 1971 book Deschooling Society. Philosophically, it refers to the belief that schools and other learning institutions are incapable of providing the best possible education for some or most individuals. Some extend this concept beyond the individual and call for an end to schools in general. This is based on the belief that most people learn better by themselves, outside of an institutional environment, at a self-determined pace. This is the meaning of the term as used by Illich. Another common criticism is that institutionalized schooling is used as a tool for the engineering of an ignorant, conformist working class through constant schedules and prearranged time blocks and one-size-fits-all teaching methods. Practical alternatives arising in place of institutionalized learning have been free schools, un schooling at home and forming networks with other deschooling families and individuals. In a practical context, it refers to the mental process a person goes through after being removed from a formal schooling environment, when the "school mind set" is eroded over time. It is typically used to describe children who have been removed from school for the purpose of self-directed home schooling, but technically applies any person leaving school, either by dropping out or graduating. The term is sometimes used synonymously with un schooling, which is actually quite different. Deschooling refers the time period it takes for child removed from school to adjust to learning in an unstructured environment. Families who have taken their children out of school to home school often find their children need a period of adjustment- learning to live without the reinforcement of grading and regimented learning. K12 Academics -- -------------------------------------------------------- Escaping the Matrix website http://escapingthematrix.org/ cyberjournal website http://cyberjournal.org Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html subscribe cyberjournal list mailto:•••@••.••• Posting archives http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/
