Welcome back to Season 2 of the Faark The Shoulds podcast, kicking off in fashionably late style with this Alchemising Education episode.

If the parents “get to decide” then it’s only fitting that the kids “get to choose”!

Join QuantiMama Jodi and the ever-curious Curious Quinn for another Fark the Shoulds conversation on Alchemising Education.

 

What does child-led or child driven education look like? 

Does it have structure?

A tangible and intelligible program?

Or is it just a free-for-all shermozzle that fosters unruly, wayward, undisciplined children; houses in disarray and home educating parents in the foetal position, tearing their hair out, struggling to track and trace their child’s progress?

 

Sorry not sorry to burst the bubble of hyperbolic generalisation. Child driven education is so much richer and rewarding than one could quantify, even with a dedicated half hour conversation.

 

Jodi and Quinn chat about the foundations for success in their kids’ education architecture:

Support

Trust

Structure, rhythm and natural boundaries

Natural learning times as devised by the learner (a learning in itself, one might say)

Empowerment

Trials and life tests

Reassessment and agility

Shepherding (rather than Sheepherding) our charges and 

Being the custodians, not architects, of their education.

 

They also explore the idea of resilience and the misconception that it only comes from surviving trauma, challenging the idea that kids need to face adversity, in the absence of safety, security and a loving environment to build resilience. 

 

In a world of abundant options, even in the home education sphere, hear from two Mums walking the talk on their decision to fark the shoulds and place their kids firmly in the driver’s seat of their learning. 
Turns out that kids aren’t the only students when it comes to education.

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