I was out tooling around in the blogosphere, looking at some of the homeschool blogs outside of my usual rambles. I found a post that Dana at Principled Discovery had made a couple of days ago about Christian Education and Unschooling. Both her post and the comments were very interesting.
As you know, I think that unschooling is perfectly compatible with Christian parenting. Christian education as a distinct entity is not something that I generally think about. Our churches have always had a Board of Christian Education that oversees the Sunday School, VBS, and day school where such existed. I know that isn't what they mean.
The sense I get is that many of them believe that there is a distinctly Christian way to educate. I don't.
I don't think of what we do as Christian education. In fact, I don't think of it in terms of education all that often. I think in terms of learning, certainly. But not education or teaching.
The one difficulty that I have with the underpinnings of the philosophy of unschooling is that it assumes innate goodness of children. I, of course, believe that my children were born sinful, as we all were, but I don't think that that has to keep us from enjoying the benefits of unschooling and the lifestyle that we enjoy.
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I know this is an old(ish) post, but I'm commenting anyway. I read Dana's post (because I am a Christian "unschooler" who writes for HOTM ezine (as she does), she let me know she was going to talk about it and invited me to respond.
I don't think in terms of "Christian education". Instead, I think of discipleship, and to me, that is what unschooling is.
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