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World-schooling is the latest approach to education among parents who prefer unconventional methods. The children learn from people around the world, from their culture and their society.
Educating children through experiential learning is the new approach to schooling these days. Parents, who are in favour of home schooling, take the children around the world to learn from the people, culture and their society.
Unconventional parents opt for this way of educating their children. These parents believe that a child’s education is not confined to one classroom, but by experiencing what the text book teaches.
Research has shown that children learn best through play and experiences. People feel far less reliant on the classroom-plus-teacher model and far more comfortable knowing they simply have to provide a supportive learning environment. This method also makes the child an independent thinker and an independent decision maker. Some parents prefer to take curriculum on the road; others use the world around them as the curriculum.
But it requires a lot of planning from the parents’ part — right from picking the location to reading up of the culture of the place, to the food habits, to the famous places to visit.
Parents pick on locations that they are travelling to, research about the country thoroughly (demographics, culture, tradition and the like). Children older than eight are involved too: they read about the place, list down things they would want to do in that country and the places they would like to visit. This gives the child a direction and helps him/her think about things they would have ideally missed.
Parents create a reflection journal in which, on a daily basis, the child documents all the places visited and all that was picked up or noticed on that day. It is essential to create a broad outline for a child so that the learning is effective.
World schooling as a concept is new; however, it will become a trend, and it is something that parents should practise while travelling with the child on a general basis as well.
