“We don’t teach our children anything,” the spiritual influencer Mami Onami proclaims in a TikTok. “Anything that they learn is in response to either their interest or their questions.” She has ...

Unschooling has its roots in the educational reform movements of the 1960s and ’70s, popularized by educator John Holt. Its guiding belief is that children are naturally driven to learn — if adults ...

It’s not an educational style; it’s a lifestyle. It may not surprise you to learn the term “unschooling” was coined in the 1970s. Also known as self-directed or “delight-directed” learning, it is a ...

Unschooling is an educational philosophy that relies on a child’s innate curiosity and desire to learn. In families that practice unschooling, students do not attend school and do not follow any set ...

When it comes to the trend of unschooling, there's no middle ground. We asked for reader feedback on a story about the unconventional method of homeschooling that allows the child to choose what and ...

Scroll through TikTok or Instagram and you’ll likely come across families documenting their “unschooling” lives — children learning through nature walks instead of textbooks, kitchen experiments ...

FARGO - In 2005, two months before her second child was born, Jill Christianson was laid off from her job at Microsoft in Fargo. She opted not to apply for another job at Microsoft. Shortly thereafter ...

What if everything your child enjoyed doing – lying in a hammock, building a fort, playing a video game or whatever it may be – was considered a form of school? This is one of the foundational ideas ...

ST. CLOUD — For Mandy Spiczka and her 10-year-old daughter Zoe, there's no such thing as summer vacation. Sure, it's summertime, and yes, they're on vacation — but education is still afoot. "Today we ...

Unschooling is a movement that turns conventional thinking about education upside down. I'd like to learn more about it and tell the world more about it, and for that reason I'm conducting a survey of ...

Is a child who spends the day watching videos or playing in the backyard actually learning? Yes, say advocates of the "unschooling" movement. Maleka Diggs, founder of Eclectic Learning Network, a ...

Scroll through TikTok or Instagram and you’ll likely come across families documenting their “unschooling” lives — children learning through nature walks instead of textbooks, kitchen experiments ...