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Taking Children Seriously is an educational movement founded by Sarah Lawrence, David Deutsch, and [Kolya Wolf]?, based upon the idea that children can be educated without imposing that education upon them against their will. Lawrence publishes a journal of that name, and maintains a mailing list and [website]. TCS posits that children should be brought up entirely without coercion, in a way that is more similar to how adults are educated. Children of TCS parents choose whether or not to go to school. Often they homeschool or unschool. Lawrence claims that much of her philosophy is inspired by the writings of Karl Popper, and more specifically that aspects of Popper's epistemology can be viewed as a psychology of human learning. Popper himself never made that analogy, though he did write about the failures of educational methods common in his time. /Talk |
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Taking Children Seriously is an educational movement founded by Sarah Lawrence, David Deutsch, and [Kolya Wolf]?, based upon the idea that it is possible and desirable to raise and educate children without doing anything to them against their will and without making them do anything against their will. Lawrence [1] publishes a journal of the same name, and maintains a mailing list and website [2]. What distinguishes TCS parenting and education from other such philosophies is that in TCS families, instead of the parents imposing their will on their children, or self-sacrificing for their children, parents and children work together to find real solutions to any problems or disagreements they have. A real solution, says Lawrence, is a common preference, a solution all parties genuinely prefer to all other candidate solutions they can think of. Lawrence says that her philosophy is inspired by the epistemology of Karl Popper. According to TCS, Popper's epistemology is a universal theory of how knowledge grows and it has profound implications for educational theory. Lawrence says that Popper himself never made this connection. /Talk |
What distinguishes TCS parenting and education from other such philosophies is that in TCS families, instead of the parents imposing their will on their children, or self-sacrificing for their children, parents and children work together to find real solutions to any problems or disagreements they have. A real solution, says Lawrence, is a common preference, a solution all parties genuinely prefer to all other candidate solutions they can think of.
Lawrence says that her philosophy is inspired by the epistemology of Karl Popper. According to TCS, Popper's epistemology is a universal theory of how knowledge grows and it has profound implications for educational theory. Lawrence says that Popper himself never made this connection.
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