Brave Learning: Home-learning
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Home-learning
Let’s change the name from homeschooling to home-learning.
I’m all for innovation! We’ve got micro schools, online classes, and a huge array of co-op options in the homeschool space. Homeschooling is having a moment!
In this big shift, I want to be sure we remember one of the golden purposes of home education: we’re not just moving the location of the education, we’re also changing how that education is experienced by the child.
This morning I stumbled on an article I used as research for one of my books. It’s an academic paper studying the effects of play and joy on learning in Finland. One of the initial assertions is that “emotions in the school world have been studied surprisingly little.” Anxiety and negative emotions get some attention, but happiness? Forget about it.
Yet joy, it turns out, is tied to a child’s experience of success. Joy in learning is the subject of this paper.
My tag line, “Joy is the best teacher” is validated by the research! [Keep reading]
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