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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

Wen,

I gave myself 24 hours before I commented on this so I could think about 
what I wanted to offer.  This sort of topic can become a sticky wicket and I 
wanted to see if I had anything to offer without stepping into that.

> 
> >Right, but the unschooling model doesn't really apply here 

For my comment to make any sense, I have to bring up that unschooling isn't 
a model (nor a method, nor a strategy).  As a comparison, some people don't 
vaccinate their children.  Would we view their refraining from vaccinations 
as a 'model' for vaccinating?   

>>  I suspect
> that what I'm looking for doesn't currently exist, which isn't a big
>  

Having said that then, my comment would be that not only does it currently 
not exist, from a radical unschooler's point of view, it can never exist.

Curriculum is part and parcel of the industrial/government paradigm.  It is 
specifically employed as a basis for managing (limiting) learning to make 
the person better fitted for industrial life, bureaucracy, government and 
military service, etc.  The type of orientation and approach that is needed 
on 
a subsistence homestead is quite different from that.

So can you reduce the one to the other?  I very much misdoubt it.   

I am basing what I'm saying on raising a homestead full of children who 
were, in fact, born right here on the homestead.  They have never been 
exposed 
to schooling or curriculum in any way.  Yet all are possessed of a complete 
set of skills and knowledge to homestead on their own should they choose to 
do so.  

So I if I were to write a curriculum to impart the skills and knowledge 
needed on a homestead, what would I write?   I wouldn't even attempt it.


James