“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

All children will learn to read, whether you read to them or not, says *Jana Malan, a mother of four. The children of the *Malan family from Gauteng have never been to school. Their parents practise ...

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 ...

Parents who unschool their children are accustomed to defending their decision: To their in-laws, to their spouses, to other parents. And sometimes to themselves. “There's always going to be those ...

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 ...

All children will learn to read, whether you read to them or not, says *Jana Malan, a mother of four. The children of the *Malan family from Gauteng have never been to school. Their parents practise ...