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Kerry McDonald on Unschooling and Homeschooling’s Massive Growth

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Kerry McDonald talks about the massive growth of homeschooling and unschooling after the Covid-19 pandemic, and how you can start unschooling with your children.

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Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom, and an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • [2:00] What is unschooling
  • [4:30] What does unschooling and schooling look like in comparison to government schooling and how it’s trying to be different
  • [6:10] How Covid-19 has changed homeschooling and unschooling
  • [11:03] How children learn and how parents can support and facilitate that learning
  • [13:27] What misconceptions people who were brought up in the system have on homeschooling
  • [18:03] How homeschooling has expanded in the past year
  • [19:21] Kerry’s experience and journey to homeschooling
  • [25:57] The first steps to exploring your child’s education in homeschooling
  • [29:45] The process of finding the best option for your child
  • [35:14] How to incorporate non-academic activities into your schooling
  • [39:07] How to spark your child’s interests
  • [40:20] Stereotypes of homeschooling
  • [42:44] The difference in outcome between homeschooling and public education
  • [45:56] Navigating college and how to prepare your child for an unknown future

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Ari Hershkowitz on Hasidic Jewish Change

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Ari Hershkowitz talks about his journey and experiences in the Hasidic Jewish community explored in the Netflix documentary One of Us (2017).

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We discuss Ari’s healing journey, return to the Hasidic community, and how the Jewish community is changing.

Topics Discussed In This Episode:

  • [1:00] What a Hasidic Jewish Community looks like
  • [2:21] Ari’s current stance in his community
  • [4:47] Journey to change within the Hasidic community and the specific changes being made
  • [6:26] The cause of these changes
  • [7:31] Fears and control of information flow
  • [8:27] Why New York is the home for a Hasidic Jewish community
  • [10:00] Ari’s Journey to questioning and leaving his community
  • [14:51] Ari’s involvement with the documentary crew and experience with film One of Us
  • [16:34] Ari’s experiences post leaving the community
  • [18:51] School and education within the Hasidic Jewish community
  • [19:6] Best and worst of leaving
  • [21:09] Ari’s discoveries of other religions and experiences post leaving the community
  • [23:40] Ari’s return back to living with the community
  • [25:27] Ari’s hopeful changes for the community
  • [28:02] Ari’s journey to self-recovery and healing
  • [29:44] Sexual abuse and how it’s handled in the community
  • [32:44] Footsteps and mental health organizations in the documentary “One of Us” and how to get involved
  • [34:09] How the Hasidic Jewish community see other Jewish communities and perceive criticism from the outside
  • [39:00] Criticism of circumcision and anti-semitism
  • [41:44] Generational trauma and finding ways to have an understanding between outsiders and people within the community
  • [45:11] Jewish Identity defined
  • [47:51] Where Ari is today and his next steps moving forward
  • [48:55] Community and reaction to the Netflix Documentary

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