Kerry McDonald on Unschooling and Homeschooling's Massive Growth (#019)

Kerry McDonald talks about the massive growth of homeschooling and unschooling after the Covid-19 pandemic, and how you can start unschooling with your children.

Kerry is a Senior Education Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom, and an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

• [2:00] What is unschooling
• [4:30] What does unschooling and schooling look like in comparison to government schooling and how it’s trying to be different
• [6:10] How Covid-19 has changed homeschooling and unschooling 
• [11:03] How children learn and how parents can support and facilitate that learning 
• [13:27] What misconceptions people who were brought up in the system have on homeschooling 
• [18:03] How homeschooling has expanded in the past year
• [19:21] Kerry’s experience and journey to homeschooling 
• [25:57] The first steps to exploring your child’s education in homeschooling
• [29:45] The process of finding the best option for your child 
• [35:14] How to incorporate non-academic activities into your schooling 
• [39:07] How to spark your child’s interests 
• [40:20] Stereotypes of homeschooling 
• [42:44] The difference in outcome between homeschooling and public education
• [45:56] Navigating college and how to prepare your child for an unknown future

Resources: 

• Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom by Kerry McDonald
• Kerry McDonald Bio

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