If you’ve come to this site, chances are you’ve heard of worldschooling. It’s that new middle-class trend in education wherein you take your family on an extended holiday to teach them about the world, right?
That’s only partly correct. There is a lot more to it. Worldschooling is not just an educational method, it’s a way of life and a huge commitment. It’s not something that you can dip in and out of, doing a bit here and there on weekends and school holidays. Worldschooling needs to be done all day, every day.
Worldschooling, world-schooling, travelschooling or life-learning. Whatever you know it as, more and more parents around the world are doing it if the explosion of blogs and social media accounts of families traveling around the world are anything to go by.
More parents are finding a desire to spend greater quality time with their kids, break free of the rat race and encounter new and exciting lifestyles and cultures. An increasing number of parents around the world are downsizing, pulling their kids out of school and heading off on a round-the-world adventure.
For many families travelling the world, worldschooling is not just a side effect of travelling, but rather is part of the appeal. And worldschooling is on the increase. In the UK, local authority figures suggest that there is an increase in homeschooling of 65% over the last six years.
What does the government think of worldschooling?
It should come as no surprise to anyone that the UK and US governments, lead by targets and performance goals, are not fans of worldschooling. However, these arbitrary targets are exactly the sort of thing that inspires many parents to set off on this adventure.
