Education Recovery
Use Your Outside Voice Unschool
by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
As COVID-19 “Education Recovery” plans and and panic rise, we discuss the unsaid aspects of recovery and what beneficial changes we have observed through the pandemic. Episode recorded June 13, 2021 Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas ..read more
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Reentry
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by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
COVID's over, back to normal--?!? Erg, not so much. Our conversation winds its way through what feels ridiculous to ignore at this time. Being mothers during pandemic with kids still not old enough for vaccination, evaluating narratives through lenses that have always resisted school, looking at what-is, showing up in the world as whole as possible.  Episode recorded May 14, 2021 Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas ..read more
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Life Learning at Its Core
Use Your Outside Voice Unschool
by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
“I think the biggest takeaway for me right now, as there’s all this conversation about homeschooling and how are things going, is for me it’s a better example this past year than I’ve ever had of the ways in which unschooling is absolutely, at its core, life learning. And there’s so much that we are all learning, whether its how to manage trauma, and all these things…The many ways which all of this will manifest will not be stuff that we can necessarily know for years, and this is a better example of that to me, perhaps because it is so intense and there’s so much learning all the time, every ..read more
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We didn’t come here to make friends
Use Your Outside Voice Unschool
by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
A listener asks, “How do you find people like you? How did you find each other?” and we recall meeting each other by coincidence, and children’s clarity in recognizing their people. We discuss unpeeling layers of school-centric frameworks of “friendship,” being fairly unattached to finding friends based on unschooling status, and well-meaning but thwarted attempts to construct relationships through coops/playgroups. We bring voice to existence of “the quiet years,” honesty about living the shift from a more external focus to centering family and home, and the fact that our kids are pretty clea ..read more
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Context
Use Your Outside Voice Unschool
by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
We circle around what it means to be unschooling through unprecedented times, when the arrival of a covid vaccine will not mean an end-date to the failing of systems. The context of these times is not just covid, when on a daily basis we can’t shut our eyes to all the things being surfaced and amplified. Like many homeschool parents right now, we have little patience for questions about forcing kids to perform empty academic tricks. It is the job of school to let us perseverate on things that don’t matter so that everything else remains irrelevant. Unchanged. Should it really take apocalypse t ..read more
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A Seat at the Table
Use Your Outside Voice Unschool
by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
A question posed by a listener and school teacher sparks a conversation about what can be changed within the institution of school, the capability of families to meet the needs of their own children, and whether school can provide equality. Months into disease and racial pandemics, the moment may have arrived for everyone (even unschoolers without kids enrolled in a school) to come to the table with new ideas for how the needs of children and a community are decided and met. Consideration at this table must see school for what it is, how it was created to function, and the impact it has on ALL ..read more
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Invitation for Questions
Use Your Outside Voice Unschool
by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
Quick invitation to send your unschooling (and deschooling) questions or topics you’d like to hear cracked open a bit further. In this moment, with so many things going on in the world, we want to open up the conversation and include the things you are personally growing and moving through. Send us an email or voice memo at outsidevoicepodcast@gmail.com or get us on Facebook (Use Your Outside Voice Unschooling Podcast ..read more
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White People are Up in Their Feelings
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by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
We value and intentionally engage in dialogue about where we stand and are being as Black and white people and unschooling families as racism and white supremacy/violence are surfaced and brought forefront in national focus and pandemic remains the global context. Links to references from the podcast: Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown, How to Survive the End of the World podcast America is the Fire Nation Tada Hozumi, What it means to heal white supremacy: restoring the cultural nervous system, cultivating Hara Questions? outsidevoicepodcast@gmail.com, or Facebook. Episode recorded June 21 ..read more
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How are You Doing?
Use Your Outside Voice Unschool
by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
We raise questions about how we are doing, question how we as a country got here, and how we become so desensitized that any kind of heinousness is just another news cycle to move through. We acknowledge the ongoing and historical presence of people creating pathways for survival and notice that even in a path that steps outside of mainstream systems, there seems to be a desire to fit what is currently happening in this country into some sort of curriculum or checklist to guarantee not-being-racist. It comes back to grappling with your own shit, including not having all the answers (and being ..read more
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School Refusal for Moms
Use Your Outside Voice Unschool
by Producer: Brian Lane-Karnas
1y ago
As coronavirus shut down schools, we discuss the implied expectation that mom accept the added role of substitute teacher—and the impulse to say hell, no. We discuss rejecting a school-model of relationship at home; surviving within trauma response; and point out illusions shored up by school that may get revealed in its absence. We answer listener questions and, as usual, offer an alternative to the narrative that school is the best or only valid path. Questions? outsidevoicepodcast@gmail.com, or Facebook. Episode recorded early April 2020. Original music credits: Saoirse, Mae, and Juniper Pr ..read more
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