Deschooling: Moving Through and Beyond Our Schoolishness, is a mini zine by Hannah Mack (they/them) of quotes and prompts for inspiration, reflection, and healing in our deschooling journeys.
Download your free copy of this zine below; feel free to print and use the folding/cutting instructions provided.
"Our family defines unschooling as a child-trusting, anti-oppression, liberatory, love-centered approach to parenting and caregiving. We operate with a core belief that children own themselves and that parents and other adults work with children to nurture their confident autonomy not their ability to obey adult directives."
Akilah S. Richards
Reflection Prompts:
What does unschooling mean to you?
What kind of relationship are you trying to co-create with the young people in your life?
How is this intentional different from and similar to your own upbringing?
What healing and care does your inner child need to make your intentions more possible?
“We can best help children learn, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach it to them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in.”
John Holt
Reflection Prompts
What are your core beliefs about learning?
What do you think children should learn?
What are your fears about unschooling? Where do theses fears from from?
How could the world be made more accessible for children? How can you help make it so?
“When we interrupt child oppression, young people see that we stand in solidarity with them. We let them know that, though we are free from the age-based discrimination they face, we are still concerned with their struggle. We let them know that their experiences and their lives matter to us. And that recognition can open up conversations about how liberations are intertwined, how none of us are free until all of us are free, and how we can support the liberation of others. In this way we not only stand up for them-- and children everywhere-- we seed in them the capacity to stand up for others.”
Antonio Buehler
Reflection Prompts:
How would you describe the adults' role in unschooling?
What's an example of child oppression you've witnessed? How could you interrupt it?
What seeds of liberation are you planting?
Suggested reading list to support your deschooling journey, available here.
Feel free to download/print/share your own copy of this zine, here! Use the folding + cutting instructions below to turn it into a mini zine!
Instructions for folding a mini zine by Ashley Topacio
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