7 - K-12 & Self-Directed Education Graduates survey PART II
Project scope
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Data analysis Humanities Education Social sciencesSkills
self-discipline higher education researchNumber of positions available: 2 teams of 2 or 3 persons
The UnschoolingSchool.com team is launching a project to synthesize the many sources of proof and evidence that Self-Directed Education (SDE) works and is an optimal way to educate children. We have partnered with Riipen.com to engage university and college students in short projects to help with the work of gathering and synthesizing the evidence. For more information about our amazing project click on the Resources Section.
This project involves refining and conducting a multiple-choice survey (including finding participants from across Canada)
The goal is to have the survey taken by Canadian residences between the ages of 19-30, 600 respondents from each of the following groups:
1. Conventional System High School graduates and drops-out—
to gather evidence that they would have benefited from a K-12 education that involved much more student agency.
2. Unschoolers/Self-Directed Education (SDE) participants--
to gather evidence that their SDE prepared them very effectively for post-secondary education and/or work
Possible sources:
1. peers, FB, Insta, Student Unions/Association
2. ALPHA I & ALPHA II (Toronto), Windsor House Vancouver, ‘homeschooled’ Unschoolers (FB groups)
Possible approach:
- research ways to access the group
- refine the current drat survey
- conduct survey
- synthesis and share results.
We are looking for 2 teams of 2-3 people
Steps of the project include:
-develop a plan for reaching 600 schoolers and 600 Free Learners (people who took a self-directed path) in their 20s
-refine draft survey and create a final approved survey
-work with Classroom Connections to post the survey on Survey Monkey
-promote the survey and enrolling participants
Final deliverable includes:
-report on results to day and recommended next steps to reach the goal of 600 schoolers, 600 SDEers
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“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
– Khalil Gibran
One on one and group mentorship, involvement in other Unschooling School educational activities . Approximately 4 hours of mentorship.
About the company
We are a national non-for profit organization dedicated to creating a shift in what counts as learning and education. We are seeking open-minded, critical, and creative thinkers to seek out evidence for our belief that the time is NOW to radically change public schooling and create meaningful, sustainable, learning opportunities for all.
“Ideally, what should be said to every child, repeatedly, throughout his or her school life is something like this: 'You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do.” Doris Lessing in The Golden Notebook
We are dedicated to changing this narrative!
Unschooling School is in initiative (launched in 2020) of Classroom Connections, founded in 1997.
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