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Jaipur: John Holt is the strongest advocate of un-schooling or homeschooling. The term homeschooling is used to describe all those arrangements and methods of education that are not pursued for institutionalized learning. In other words children receive education in a family environment based on their interests and parents take an active part in facilitating activities and experiences conducive to learning.
Those who favour this alternative of education hold that a home school can easily create family-centered support to pool their talents and resources in a collective effort to broaden the scope of their own children’s education. They provide a classroom environment where students can do hands-on and group learning such as performing arts, science experiments, projects, language study, discussions, etc.
In other words, home schools hardly rely on textbooks or formal teaching; they rather, look for learning moments or opportunities throughout their daily activities as they unfold or arise. The term un-schooling for a type of homeschooling as coined by John Holt, and its proponents view it as an approach in which parents and teachers do not authoritatively direct the child's education, but interact with the child following the child's own interests, leaving them free to explore and learn as their interests lead.
The proponents of homeschooling put forth the parents should see their role as that of affirming through positive feedback and modeling the necessary skills, and the child’s role as being responsible for asking and learning. Holt has asserted that children learn through the experiences of life, and he encouraged parents to live their lives with their child. In the USA, due to the demands of higher education and mainstreaming, a growing number of homeschooled students are choosing dual enrollment, earning college credit by taking community college classes while in high school.
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