66. (S4E24) Unschool Undefined (& Other Home Education Philosophies)
Brave Writer
Julie Bogart and Melissa Wiley
4.8 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Do you ever feel stressed out talking about home education philosophies? When Unschooling, Classical Education, or Charlotte-Mason come up, do you ever feel like you’re going to have to defend yourself? Have you ever felt this way in an academic homeschooling community?
It’s weird, isn’t it?
In this episode, Julie discusses the importance of safe communities, the dangers of ideological purity, the red flags she saw around Unschooling, and three principles for a healthy education.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season 4 of the Brave Writer Podcast, A Brave Writers Life in Brief. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Julie Bogart, your host. |
| 0:09.0 | This season we are releasing via audio our most popular YouTube broadcasts. |
| 0:15.6 | We're so excited that you can now listen to these on audio |
| 0:19.2 | while you're running, driving in the car, or folding laundry. We will also sprinkle throughout this season |
| 0:26.7 | original content interviews with people I think are compelling to listen to. |
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| 0:50.0 | And now, let's get going with this episode. |
| 0:55.0 | There is something stressful about talking about homeschooling educational philosophies. |
| 1:07.0 | Do you know what I mean? Do you find it a little bit agitating? |
| 1:11.0 | I know for me when the subject of unschooling comes up or classical education or Charlotte |
| 1:17.5 | Mason, I just feel like this little internal catch inside like am I going to have to defend myself is |
| 1:26.1 | somebody going to bring up some way I haven't complied to the vision of this |
| 1:30.4 | educational philosophy and now I'm going to be put on the defensive of this |
| 1:35.0 | and now I'm going to be put on the defensive and feel like I'm not doing it well enough. |
| 1:37.0 | How many of you have felt this way in any of the academic homeschooling communities |
| 1:42.0 | you've been a part of? It's weird, isn't it? We're like |
| 1:45.3 | gathered to support each other, then we take the risk of sharing, and then all of the sudden we get |
| 1:51.4 | feedback about how we're not doing it right. |
| 1:54.4 | I just want us to pause just for a moment and think about that. |
| 2:00.0 | How can a community be supportive if the persistent feeling you're having is that you're not living up to the imagined standards of that community? |
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