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Allow Time to Deschool © Beverley Paine It can take over a year to adjust to homeschooling after bringing a child home from school. It's necessary to rethink the whole idea of education. Classroom learning is geared to educate thirty children with one teacher. It's not impossible, but it's difficult and frustrating to simply transfer classroom teaching and learning approaches directly to the home setting.In addition, there's a good chance that the child has had her natural desire to learn, as well as her creativity and imagination quashed. She will need time to detox, take a vacation, have some down time - or all three! The parent needs to deschool as well. For most of us the only educational approach we've known is some kind of school - institutionalised learning. We're used to the idea that education is a passive 'they teach and we learn' kind of thing. Educators, even in schools, know this is only a tiny part of what really happens. We need to update our notions about constitutes an education. The easiest way to do this is to talk to other homeschooling families, hang out with them, and see for ourselves how children learn outside of a school setting. Some of the myths about education we must dispel are:
See Deschooling Defined for more information. Some books I recommend for parents are:
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