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Home Education - Children and Learning |
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Written by Harriet Pattison
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Saturday, 22 November 2008 07:53 |
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The children whose learning we are interested in come from families that practice home education and who pursue this home education not by teaching their children in the conventional sense but by relying on the informal learning that emanates naturally from day to day living. It is important to note that even structured home education is not the same as school and the kind of learning we are talking about goes on anyway in all families, not just those involved in home education. Sometimes this kind of informal home education is called autonoumous learning, unschooling or natural learning. Some families have a philosphical or pedagogical commitment to this type of home education, for others it has evolved as they and their children discover over time, the home education style that suits them best. For yet other families the time to change from informal to formal learning, as children do when they start school, has simply not arrived yet.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 27 April 2009 15:13 )
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