It’s an unschooler classic to say that kids learn things like maths from baking. And like so many things I eventually came round to (eg bedsharing!), I couldn’t wrap my head around that as surely what you could learn is limited? Au contraire! When...
“For me, certainly, [unschooling is] about leaning in as far into authenticity as is possible with as big a compassionate heart as is also possible.” – Essie Richards In this episode Essie Richards talks with Adele Jarrett-Kerr...
At the beginning of the pandemic, like many other home educators, I was asked to write to offer advice to everyone who now found themselves “homeschooling”. I turned down most requests partly because I felt overwhelmed at the time but also because I...
“One of the things of the hidden curriculum of schooling is to teach people not to be ecological because it divides the world into subjects. It divides people into a hierarchy through testing processes which demean the people who are ‘failures’. And...
“If you had a generation of children who grew up with a morality based on empathy rather than judgement, it would totally change the fabric of society.” – Artemis D Bear, founder of The Garden The first episode of Revillaging is...