Wildschooling has really been unavoidable for us over our years of homeschooling. Wildschooling is inclusive, you can wildschool when you are able.The old ways and rituals are passed on from elders to children.Group involvement and multi-generational lifestyles and learning are encouraged.A child-led, unique educational pathway is possible.

As in unschooling, wildschooling puts trust in the child’s natural growth and development.Time is more closely linked to seasons and cycles than to timetables.They are able to integrate with their natural, wild, environment. Close connections also form to the child’s exterior wild.The nature/child connections stays strong. A wildschooling child gets to connect with their wild.She really does seem to be the only authority on this subject, so the information below comes largely from her terms and definitions. She lays claim to being the creator of wildschooling and has a website, Wilder Child, dedicated to her family’s wildschooling journey. My investigations into wildschooling led me to Nicolette Sowder from Michigan USA. It’s certainly something that my children have experienced in spades over the years although I never knew it had a particular name of its own. It sounds rather lovely and reminds me of our experiences with forest school along with regular child-led learning methods. Wildschooling falls under the unschooling umbrella and involved a deep connection with nature.įreedom and this connection, nourish body, soul, and spirit in the wildschooling child. Wildschooling is a noun describing a parenting method where natural joy and creativity are allowed to flourish. The best wildschooling definition we’ve found is this. Wildschooling and Homeschooling What is Wildschooling?.Wildschooling Allows Connecting With The Land and The Seasons.Wildschoolin if Kids Don’t Like Going Outside.

Is being outdoors and feeling the full force of the elements ( which of course is a learning opportunity in itself) wildschooling? Is having freedom to do as you please wildschooling? I’m trying to find out what wildschooling really is. You’re far more likely to find my kids outside in the cold than in the heat of a tropical summer. Wildschooling in winter in a cold climate. We talk about how we think we’ve incorporated wildschooling into our homeschooling or worldschooling lifestyle and how you can too. What is wildschooling and how do you start wildschooling? Is there such a thing as a wildschooling definition and what is the underlying philosophy of homeschooling, with a little more wild? We tend to use “homeschool” to cover everything here on this site, but in the 16 years we’ve been educating outside school, we’ve done a fair amount of wildschooling. Here we investigate and try to give a definition of wildschooling. There are just too many diverse ways to homeschool or home-educate.

Wildschooling by Brittany Horton