Five Steps to Incorporating Unschooling into your Home Education Journey

About this episode

The episode discusses five manageable ways to incorporate unschooling into home education with insights from guest Heidi Steel.

Unschooling can feel like a wild and scary place for the uninitiated! And so today's podcast is looking at gentle and easy ways to incorporate unschooling and its principles into your home education journey, in way that feel manageable and empowering for you and your child. I am joined by the wonderful Heidi Steel and she'll be giving us five ways we can dip our toes into this liberating and rewarding approach to a child's learning. With: Heidi Steel- Heidi Steel is the founder of liveplaylearn.org and the Unschooling Village Hub, and author of the book School Isn’t for Everyone and What You Can Do Instead: A Practical and Neuro-Affirming Guide to Unschooling. She has over 14 years of hands-on experience as an unschooling parent of four always unschooled children. Heidi shares a practical, down-to-earth approach that builds connection, trust, and a lifelong love of learning. Throughout the resources and community that she hosts for unschooling families, you can find support to step away from traditional education systems, and guidance and reassurance to create learning environments that truly work for their families. Heidi’s work is rooted in the belief that children learn best…

People in this episode

Host: Eleanor Marker

Guest: Heidi Steel

Topics covered

• unschooling
• home education
• parenting
• child learning
• education principles

Keywords

• unschooling
• home education
• learning
• parenting
• education

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: liveplaylearn.org

Books & works: School Isn’t for Everyone and What You Can Do Instead: A Practical and Neuro-Affirming Guide to Unschooling

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