Wendy Priesnitz
Just got through reading Wendy Priesnitz piece,
“Unschooling as a feminist act” that was republished in the
Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
Education Revolution magazine. Wendy is a fellow comrade in the large circle of activists for education alternatives where AERO functions as part of the connective tissue among us. Within that larger group, Wendy and I share a focus as unschooling (what she refers to as “life learning”) activists. So I was intrigued by the title of her piece given the fact that I consider myself both a feminist and unschooling activist.
My take on Wendy’s thinking here, is that she sees a connection between feminism and unschooling because both challenge our
society’s remaining patriarchal traditions and values that see men (particularly adult men) in
