UNSCHOOLING DISTILLED
Unschooling In South Africa – FAQ
10 minute read Responding to seven of the most frequently asked unschooling related questions and sharing a bunch of links to help you understand unschooling at a deeper level
TEDX: EDUCATION IS A PRACTICE OF FREEDOM
In this TedxLyttletonWomen talk, titled Education is a Practice of Freedom, I take us on my journey as I explored the intersections between learning, education and schooling and their relationship to the society we end up with. I propose that schooling in its current...
Intersectional Unschooling? A New semantic musing
4 minute read Reflecting on the usage of the word unschooling within a social change/decolonisation orientation.
Unschooling as Decolonisation 2
6 minute read Further reflections on unschooling as decolonisation.
Unschooling As Social Change
3 minute read Looking at the potential for unschooling as social change if we remove adultism from our relationships
LIVING UNSCHOOLING
How My Phone Helped Me To Read
9 minute read Khadeeja’s relationship with reading.
How unschooling helped me travel the world
Hello, my name is Luthando and I will be telling you about my unschooling journey. It all began in 2017 when I decided to stop schooling. The reason I left school is because I didn’t feel different from the other kids. We all had to wear the same clothes and do...
Reading Reflections
10 minute read Our personal journey to literacy.
I WATCHED MY MOM EAT A BUG – UNSCHOOLING THE WORLD
6 minute read Alexander shares his journey into unschooling and then into unschooling the world.
Journey of a lifetime – Unschooling the World
4 minute read 14 year old Tariq’s adventure into unschooling and now worldschooling
DESCHOOLING
Deschooling Reading List
7 minute read Decolonisation starts with deschooling right? This is one post to bookmark as it links to 16 other long, thought provoking reads.
An Immigrant Deschooler in a Native Unschooler’s World
5 minute read There’s a difference in how free young children view their learning compared to their schooled mum (me)
RETHINKING EDUCATION
Why we need to Reimagine Schooling and Education
4 minute read Putting together a case for why we need to rethink education
The Getting Started Guide to Rethinking Schooling and Education
4 minute read A video guide in rethinking schooling and education
EVENTS
TRUE: Towards Radical Social Change. 2 – 6 December 2020
Akilah S. Richards, Kelly Limes Taylor and I (Zakiyya Ismail) are currently planning an Earthwide gathering for those involved in unschooling, self-directed education and parallel education communities whose practice is oriented towards radical social change. This...
Decolonise! UnConference
DECOLONISE! UNCONFERENCE 16-17 NOVEMBER ENOS MAFOKATE EQUESTRIAN CLUB 1679 Cnr Vundla and Lefatola Street, Moroka, SowetoA space, an idea, a feeling and a time to connect, share, learn and grow together towards other ways of being, living, learning and connecting. We...
9th Annual Unschoolers’ Weekend
The annual unschoolers camp has become a permanent spot on many unschooling and unschooling leaning family's calendars. Each year new families arrive and so the community, connection and fun grows. This Nov sees the 9th Annual Unschoolers' Weekend. Unschooling...
Learning Reimagined: Online Guided Exploration
11 June - 20 August, 2019LEARNING REIMAGINED GUIDED EXPLORATIONOnline 11 June - 20 August, 2019LEARNING REIMAGINED GUIDED EXPLORATIONOnline IS THIS FOR YOUAre you a parent, teacher, caregiver, community based educator? Are you wanting to gain a...
Learning Reimagined Conference 2018
20/21 October, 2018 LEARNING REIMAGINED UNSCHOOLING AS DECOLONISATION African Leadership Academy, Johannesburg, South Africa 20/21 October, 2018 LEARNING REIMAGINED UNSCHOOLING AS DECOLONISATION African Leadership Academy, Honeydew, South Africa...
SOCIAL FOLLOW
LATEST
TRUE: Towards Radical Social Change. 2 – 6 December 2020
Akilah S. Richards, Kelly Limes Taylor and I (Zakiyya Ismail) are currently planning an Earthwide gathering for those involved in unschooling, self-directed education and parallel education communities whose practice is oriented towards radical social change. This...
How My Phone Helped Me To Read
9 minute read Khadeeja’s relationship with reading.
TEDX: EDUCATION IS A PRACTICE OF FREEDOM
In this TedxLyttletonWomen talk, titled Education is a Practice of Freedom, I take us on my journey as I explored the intersections between learning, education and schooling and their relationship to the society we end up with. I propose that schooling in its current...
How unschooling helped me travel the world
Hello, my name is Luthando and I will be telling you about my unschooling journey. It all began in 2017 when I decided to stop schooling. The reason I left school is because I didn’t feel different from the other kids. We all had to wear the same clothes and do...
Decolonise! UnConference
DECOLONISE! UNCONFERENCE 16-17 NOVEMBER ENOS MAFOKATE EQUESTRIAN CLUB 1679 Cnr Vundla and Lefatola Street, Moroka, SowetoA space, an idea, a feeling and a time to connect, share, learn and grow together towards other ways of being, living, learning and connecting. We...
MEDIA & LEGAL
NO! The ACDP is not an ally!
3 minute read Unschoolers need to be weary of the ACDP’s adoption of ‘liberated learning’
Responding to Mary Metcalfe’s radio convo on Unschooling
7 minute read Responding to Mary Metcalfe’s lack of understanding of unschooling
Objections to Draft Home Education Policy
4 minute read Objecting to the new Home Education Bill
Response to the Basic Education Law Amendment BELA
10 minute read My submission to the department of education on the #BELABILL
Open Letter To Eusebius McKaiser
5 minute read Responding to Eusebius’ trivialising of physical punishment to children.
RANDOM THOUGHTS
New, Extreme Parenting is not so new
There's a facebook meme making it's rounds in unschooling circles that reads I practice the new, extreme parenting...I call it treating me children like human beings. It's only new to Western domination culture. New and extreme. But for many cultures - treating...
Industrial Education and Industrial Schooling
Monoculture is destructive. In agriculture and in education. Industrial agriculture, built around monoculture, is falling apart, with an ever increasing need for pesticides and other 'treatments' to keep it in place, with farm workers suffer the effects of...
Silly Humour
ME: My children don't go to school due to illnessThem: Oh dear, What's the matter?ME: School is very ill! (Fictional Story)Thinking of a career in comedy 😉
On the narrative around Malala Yousafzai
Some of the issues that arise for me in thinking about Malala and her quest for schooling: One of the ironies for me is that her own education is far wider than the schooling system she is advocating for. Her father is an education activist, He is in the...
No space for our humanity
I was rushing to get the pharmacy to get some relief meds from the chicken pox for my daughter. I had already spoken to the pharmacist so I knew they were closing at 6 and she knew I was on my way. But there was traffic light out and I realised that I...