
Unschooling is about following your passions, finding opportunities to learn in the real world and contribute meaningfully to it, using teachers and school only when chosen by you, and designing your education based on your interests! But I can't do as good of a job describing just how cool unschooling is, so go read The Teenage Liberation Handbook instead. --> Otherwise, here are some more ways to learn more about this option. Also be sure to check out the Programs section of this website as many of them are available to you as an homeschooler like PSEO...
Getting Started
- Minnesota Homeschoolers Alliance (MHA)
- MHA is an inclusive, non-sectarian homeschooling organization. They can help you find out how to legally start homeschooling, and help you to meet other unschoolers and point you to other Minnesota resources.
- Unschooling Undefined
- A decent primer on alot of reasons why school and learning don't always go together, and why unschooling is the way to go.
More Information
- Learn in Freedom!
- Learn in freedon and take responsibility for your own learning! Learn how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you. Lots of resources here.
- School Free: Pursuing Real Life
- "This site is meant as a resource guide, a bibliography, and a contact list for students who have ever contemplated leaving school, or for anyone wanting more information about what the unschooler's life entails."
- Unschooling.com
- Hoping to "support and defend and promote and encourage unschooling in all its many shapes and forms." A place to find answers, to meet friends, to discover resources, to read affirming essays when one needs uplifting.
Meet Other Unschoolers
- The Winona Farm -- Unschooling Rural Oasis
- The Winona Farm is a 175-acre rural oasis at the junction of two trout streams on the edge of Winona, Minnesota where unschoolers can stay free of charge if they help out on the farm while pursuing their other projects.
- Not Back To School Camp
- Started by Grace Llewellyn, who wrote The Teenage Liberation Handbook, this camp sounds really cool! Read the testimonials and then register using the form on the site. Go!
College for Unschoolers
- High School and Beyond
- Lots of links and resources about getting started in homeschooling, methods of homeschooling in high school, lists of learning resources and places to talk to other homeschooling highschoolers.
- Uncollege
- Think unschooling has to stop after high school? Not so says the author of this article on unschooling past high school, with books and websites to check out to learn more.
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books
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How To Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
by Grace Llewyllen
Read this book!!! It will change the way you look at school and totally completely inspire you. I promise!
And What About College? : How Homeschooling Can Lead to Admissions to the Best Colleges & Universities
by Cafi Cohen
This book shows you that having an untraditional background, like unschooling, can be an asset to get into college.
more books!
(be sure to get books from your local independent bookstore or from the library!) |
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