KOKAGE
Under the big tree
The guide of Homeschooling in Japan
情報公開日 2015年1月15日
What Kind of Homeschooling?
Home-based education is about " home as the center of learning". There are as many styles as there are families, depending on each family's educational policy and the individual wishes and aptitudes of the parents and children.
The purpose of this article is not to be categorized, but to understand the diversity of home-based education in Japan.
Education for Freedom
Unschooling
Unschooling approach
There is no curriculum or timetable. We let the child's interests determine the child's behavior. We will take care to create an environment that expands the interests of the child. We put the greatest emphasis on respecting the growth, characteristics, and individuality of the child. Explore learning that responds to the "present moment" of the child.
Parents and children learn from each other, creating a relationship of equals. Dialogue protects the dignity of the individual and respects basic human rights.
Homeschooling
Parental approach
Patiently observe the child's growth. Guide the child to materials and teaching methods appropriate to the child's characteristics and personality. Create an individualized learning curriculum. Parents are familiar with society and provide their children with the knowledge, skills, techniques, qualifications, and licenses necessary for their children to live independently. The parents' and children's social views, values and beliefs will be the basis for this decision.
This is different from pre-emptive or elite education that satisfies society's expectations.
Umbrella schooling
The sharing of the same curriculum or participation in a short-term program by several homeschool families.
In some countries, participation in a schooling program offered by a formal public school is considered to be a compulsory education course.
In Japan, communities such as homeschooling families are engaged in learning opportunities such as Donguri Club and FRENE Education, which are developed using instructional methods different from the Courses of Study.
Home-based
Education
Children's rights and freedom to learn are guaranteed. The family is the main constituent of education.
Incidental Learning
Not intentional or planned.
Children's values and habits are influenced by the adults around them.
Learning at home
The learning to be acquired is clear throughout the study, and there are objectives and goals to be reached.
Online learning.
School at home
There are instructors and students, those who teach and those who are taught. The two are in different positions. A traditional education school with standards of achievement determined by public education. The student is socially accepted by learning toward those standards, and by the achievement and assessment of success in meeting those standards. The subject is neither the child nor the parent, but the provider of the learning program.
De schooling
When a person receives an education that is disconnected from his or her own independent desire to learn, which emanates from his or her own internal learning, and assumes that this is the only education available, he or she feels guilty about not doing so. The process by which this is removed is called deschooling.
Through deschooling, we learn that we do not need to be bound by the only education available, that it is a difference in the way we choose to learn, and we are able to move toward a freer way of learning.
The period of deschooling is a time of rest and relaxation to heal the emotional wounds caused by guilt and to choose a new environment for learning.
The person can accept the facts of the past and embark on a new path with compassion and confidence in his or her true self.
Not a small number of parents and children who transition to homeschooling as a result of Futoko follow this process.
The bias resulting from too strong a traditional schooling philosophy is removed.
It is also a process of regaining individual autonomy.
This process is also essential for the understanding of the community and people around them.
Free spaces for children have this function primarily.