UNSCHOOLING DISTILLED

Unschooling In South Africa – FAQ

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

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...

LIVING UNSCHOOLING

How unschooling helped me travel the world

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...

DESCHOOLING

Deschooling Reading List

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.

RETHINKING EDUCATION

EVENTS

TRUE: Towards Radical Social Change.  2 – 6 December 2020

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...

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Decolonise! UnConference

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

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

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

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

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...

TEDX: EDUCATION IS A PRACTICE OF FREEDOM

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

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

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

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...