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RE: Learning & Ignoring Societal Norms on Exams
Very interesting to read - since both my children are unschooled. The concept is fairly new, indeed, and, of course, people tend to have a negative opinion if you deviate from the norm. But, given time, society will change and the focus will shift from having a diploma to having knowledge of something, something you wanted to learn - on your own, online, private classes etc. Obviously, you won't be able to practice medicine without going to the university, but there are lots of other fields where formal education is no longer necessary.
I agree. As like what you said, people tend to stick to how the 'normal' society is. However, who define what is normal really? The system may have been there for a while, that doesnt mean is normal. I do believe there are more and more people seeing the traditional schooling system is 'dying' and not adding value to people's life, especially when you meet with teacher or school which likes to put the kids in a box.
There are so many important skill sets can be learn outside of school and will give much more value to have a more enriching life. :)
But there is always a problem with unschooling in a sense how to make the kids focus on their study without exams?
you are right @mmasim, that is one of the issues that they are still resolving. While some suggest doing away with exams, some form of assessment is needed to gauge the child's skills
IMHO, I don't believe having exam is the only way to focus. And I know lots of kids, exams just means stress to them rather than focus.
Every kids is special in their own way of learning. As adult, parents especially, it is important to identify what their kids interest is, or for some who isn't sure, perhaps parents can give them a few options of things to learn and see what they really enjoyed doing the most.
I also think it's a good idea to have a heart to heart chat with the kid (if possible) to understand what the kids have in their mind. Although I had met parents that kinda force the kids to like something, somtimes it works, sometimes it back fired. And especially kids now a days, they are born in a different 'era' if i may put it, and they have information easily accessible to them. Believe it or not, some kids know much more than adult do. It's a two way learning for both adult and kids.
When the kids found their interest, it's kinda a natural process they will focus on what they are good or enjoyed. Of cos, these are all case to case basis, but I do believe exposing them to something different and more enriching courses would be able to provide more for the kid's future, especially on soft skills, arts, EQ.
thats right! you can't teach cryptocurrency and steemit in school...yet....
That's true on the part where some fields do not require university. I think unschooling produces experts in a particular subject matter seeing that it focuses on one topic instead of the many different topics in conventional schooling.
However, I do wonder if there are modules or plans that help the parent or educator take into account all the subjects that will form some kind of career path for unschoolers