Definitions
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- noun The process of
adjusting to the non-school environment of everyday life after leaving the education system. - noun The
concept , or belief that a formal education system is counter-productive to the education of young people.
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A small but growing movement known as deschooling, life learning, unschooling, and edu-punk is home-schooling returned to its postwar progressive roots, far from the Bible-thumping mould that has come to dominate the modern image of home-schoolers.
Infowars 2010
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A small but growing movement known as deschooling, life learning, unschooling, and edu-punk is home-schooling returned to its postwar progressive roots, far from the Bible-thumping mould that has come to dominate the modern image of home-schoolers.
Infowars 2010
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Did you experience a "deschooling" period in the beginning with Jack and Emma Claire, a resistance to formal instruction at home?
Christine Escobar: Liz Edwards On Juggling Homeschooling And Life On The Stump 2008
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I first heard the term "deschooling" five years ago on the Homeschool Association of California (HSC) Yahoo!
The Life Without School Community Blog TammyT 2008
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I'm working on 'deschooling' myself from all those years of education.
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Or if he goes to school, he can always be withdrawn (although his deschooling process may not be much fun).
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I am a deschooling Mom to unschooling 8 year old twins, one boy, one girl.
Archive 2009-03-01 Sissie 2009
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I am a deschooling Mom to unschooling 8 year old twins, one boy, one girl.
Archive 2009-02-01 Sissie 2009
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They, like many in the New Left, used words such as liberation, deschooling, deconditioning, and reimprinting to denote their project of transforming Everyman into the Noble Savage. 8 The several advantages of derepression will be lost if readers do not take care to note that this term represents my interpretation of their activism, and not theirs. 9
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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I am a deschooling Mom to unschooling 8 year old twins, one boy, one girl.
Happy Birthday ChrisC! Sissie 2009
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