Unschooling is a child-led approach to education, distinct from the broader legal arrangement this atlas records separately as Homeschooling, in which a young person pursues topics from their own curiosity and daily life with no assigned curriculum, textbook or fixed schedule, on the premise, associated with educator John Holt from the 1970s onward, that structured schooling itself, not merely a particular school, can suppress a child's natural motivation to learn.
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Central QuestionDoes the anxiety, fear of failure and threat of punishment built into conventional schooling reduce children's actual ability to learn 1 Most Effective ForPreserving children's intrinsic curiosity as the ongoing driver of their own learning 1 Sources
1. Unschooling - Wikipedia
Motivations section
the anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember
Natural learning subsection, under Methods and philosophy
Unschooling is based on the premise that learning is an ongoing process driven by intrinsic curiosity.
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