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Homeschooling and Unschooling in Israel

September 21, 2006 by Lisa - Homeschooling Mom 1 Comment

We have several relatives in Israel- and from what we had heard- not that many homeschool- let alone unschool! It was with great delight that I came across this article in the Jerusalem Post about unschooling in Israel.

From the Jerusalem Post

Not much home, and even less school
By NECHAMA VEEDER

‘We’re hardly at home and it’s nothing like school,” says Sarah Nathan, a homeschooler in the Jerusalem area.

The term “homeschooling,” which implies a structured education process, has become a source of controversy among homeschoolers, many of whom now prefer the term “unschooling.”

“I don’t like the term unschooling because it uses school and then something negative,” says Sasha Zanigrad, a homeschooling father who lives in Ariel. “We don’t relate to school as something positive or negative.”

Instead he prefers a term he heard from another homeschooler – “limud klein shiur,” which means both learning without classes, and also learning without measure.

“We relate to kids as people of a different size. Their learning is different from regular school learning. They learn different things at different ages. We don’t differentiate between learning and regular development and we don’t differentiate between different subjects,” he says.

The common Hebrew term “hinuch beiti” (home education) “has a lot of what we like to say. Our home is where we have everything,” says Dina Trachtman from Ramat Raziel.

Although Natan doesn’t like to equate books with education, she calls the more formal part of their learning time “workbooks” for want of a better term.

The Trachtmans, who spend a lot of time driving to different activities, have perhaps thought of the most original name.
“[My 13-year-old son] Josh likes to call us preschoolers,” Trachtman quips. – N.V.

For full article: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1154525980192&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

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  1. Nitsan says

    October 25, 2007 at 8:57 pm

    Just to correct a minor mistake.
    There’s hardly any homeschooling in Israel. There’s mostly radical unschooling.
    The general population only recently became aware of the unschooling community in light of the poor condition of the school system in Israel.
    It is a growing community of quite a few hundred families in a country smaller than NJ in size and similar to MA in population.
    The community is active and amazing… I wish I was there, or more accurately that they would be here with me :)

    Thanks for your blog and site!
    Nitsan

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