About this episode

Pam Laricchia explores the deschooling phase of unschooling by challenging common beliefs about learning.

We’re back with the second episode in our new series on the podcast, in which we’re working our way through Pam’s book, The Unschooling Journey: A Field Guide . Today, we’re beginning our exploration of the deschooling phase of the journey with stage six: Challenging Our Beliefs About Learning. Deschooling has several aspects, and this is one of the big ones. We may carry many beliefs about the way that school is connected to learning and the way we expect children to learn. In order to challenge those beliefs, we dug into five truths about learning: teaching is not a prerequisite for learning, curriculum is unnecessary for learning, children are always learning, learning is fun, and learning is not hard. Once we start to question our existing beliefs, many of these new truths come to the surface. And they really build on each other until we’re living in a whole new paradigm! We loved diving into learning and we hope you find this episode helpful! Watch the video of our conversation on YouTube . THINGS WE MENTION IN THIS EPISODE Pam’s Substack article, “But if they don’t go to school, how will they learn?” Learn more about Pam’s book, The…

People in this episode

Host: Pam Laricchia

Topics covered

• deschooling
• beliefs about learning
• unschooling
• parenting
• education

Keywords

• unschooling
• deschooling
• learning beliefs
• education
• parenting

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Living Joyfully Network

Books & works: The Unschooling Journey: A Field Guide

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