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Category Archives "Unschooling"

Learning with your kids at home: how we unschooled

March 24, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Being, Featured, Learning, Unschooling 4 Comments

From the time my daughter was born in 1997, my partner and I went hard on studying learning theory to understand how kids learn, what’s good for them and how to support their growth. These little beings don’t come with instruction books. It’s hard enough to learn how to feed and maintain them, let alone figure out how to help their brains and hearts grow. We studied for a lot of years and gradually landed on the work of John Holt, an educational psychologist who, in the 1960s and 1970s, studied how children fail in the Boston school system. Motivated …

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A tour around the latest Cynefin iteration

March 23, 2020 By Chris Corrigan Complexity, Emergence, Featured, Flow, Improv, Leadership, Learning, Unschooling 12 Comments

Every year, to celebrate St’ David’s Day, Dave Snowden has shared a series of posts on the evolution of the Cynefin framework. This year he introduced the newest version. The framework changes, because as we use it, it has an evolutionary journey towards “better” and more coherent. Not every branch in its evolution has had helpful components, but I find the current iteration to be very useful because it is both simple to use, easy to introduce, and yet has quite a bit of depth. During the pandemic, I’ve been using this version of it to help people think about …

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One way to do it

October 4, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Learning, Unschooling One Comment

Just thought I would share this piece of communication from my son’s school.  he attends a middle school that has a unique focus on its approach to learning and character development and there is a lot I like about it.  I especially like the way there are certain traditions that flow, giving a time for mentorship and responsibility.  Check this out: November 1st Late Start It has been a tradition  for the grade six class to try and formulate a valid argument (i.e. in the Practical Reasoning class) as to why students should be allowed to come late to school …

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Dealing with the architecture of fear

August 7, 2012 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Conversation, Learning, Organization, Unschooling, Youth 6 Comments

Just read an article on how the fear of failure is the greatest thing holding back innovation in the business world. One reads these kinds of articles all the time. The essence is that unless we can let go of fear or deal with our deep need to be in control at all times, innovation is stifled. This is true of course, but I see few articles that talk about how fear of failure in built into the architecture of the organization. We live in an expert driven culture. Kids raised in schools are taught at an early age that …

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Self-doubt and the bullying boss

October 24, 2009 By Chris Corrigan Collaboration, Leadership, Unschooling One Comment

Johnnie Moore posts a touching analysis of what drives bullying bosses in organizations.  Some recent research concludes that a perceived sense of incompetence can cause people to lash out against others. This has been my experience.  Our culture demands answers, expertise and bold confidence in making decisions.  Most people are trained starting in pre-school that these traits are in the domain of the individual and that your success depends on them. What is missing is training in asking questions, seeking help and acting from clarity. In schools, these practices are forbidden in exam rooms, where students are evaluated on their …

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