Long Term Travel and Homeschooling, Unschooling, Travel Schooling or World Schooling
September 29th, 2009 | 
Author: We have spent a weekend together with a whole bunch of wonderful people of all ages at the annual meeting of the Swedish Homeschooling association. When we were driving back home, we talked about how being in charge of the children’s time and education has made it so much easier for us to do long term travel and to do whatever we’ve wanted. We have never needed to ask for permission from a teacher to go away, or to stay a bit longer if our plans have changed along the way.
Swedish Home School Organization
Actually, a big part of why we have been doing long term travel in the first place has been the children’s education and to give them the possibility to learn as much as possible about the world and about people.
We have come across some expressions lately that now are used for this kind of education: travel schooling and world schooling for example.
I really like that. “We’re out travel schooling!” or “We spend time away from home world schooling!” It gives you a feeling for what it’s all about, doesn’t it? You’re out there in the world learning.
Visiting a school in a different culture can be great fun – here in a small village in the Yasava Islands, Fiji
Of course, you don’t need to be home schooling full time to travel. Or you don’t need to be home schooling at all.
We know families who have traveled and stayed in a specific place where the children then have joined the local school for a while. And families where the children have gone to several different schools along the way.
Most families who travel long term though, just take the children out for a while, some months, half a year or a year and continue to work together with the teacher at home in different ways. They bring material to work on and keep in contact with the teacher through the internet.
We write some more about this subject on the Children and School pages.
Just remember that having children of school age doesn’t have to be a reason to stay at home – it’s actually a great reason not to stay at home!
Here’s a film from another family who travels and learns. You can also learn more about them on their website www.soultravelers3.com
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I think it is a wonderful opportunity for the child to travel the world and be home schooled. They get to see and experience things they wouldn’t have in the class room.
Yes Jamie, I think so too. I’m so grateful for having had the possibility to give my children this education. Many people still don’t see that you can learn from other places than the classroom. It’s not so strange though, since this system for “learning” has been there for so long and we’re almost all a product of it.
Just the fact that expressions like “world schooling” are popping up gives me hope that things are changing.
Visiting different schools in other parts of the world makes it as exciting for you as it does for all those in the school who get to see an interesting ‘alien’ face! Alien in the way that you’re not a local of course, not because you have alien features. I can imagine it being a truly eye opening experience.
One can opt to study abroad if one really is serious to travel. It is a great opportunity not only to get an education but also emerse themselves into their culture and get a bit of everything.
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The importance of learning in enabling the individual to put his potentials to optimal use is self-evident. Without education, the training of the human minds is incomplete. No individual is a human being in the working world until he has been educated in the proper sense.
Learning while traveling is an effective mean of improving the learning skills. Children get different knowledge from outside the class. They are getting an opportunity to expertise the world.
Well, your article is having lots of useful details.
i was also home schooled when i was younger and it is also a great weay to get your education.*-*
I agree, being home schooled it is a great way to get an education! And it also gives you the opportunity to study anywhere, you don’t have to be at home all the time. And it also teaches you that you can learn from everything everywhere, at least it has taught both me and our kids that. We’re all great learners.
Happy to hear from another home schooler!
I think might really a wonderful for kids because they always like to traveling.
i was home schooled too but i would still prefer regular schools.,.”
Well, homeschooling ins’t for everybody. But if you’re not the homeschooling type, it’s a great alternative that can allow you go go traveling for longer periods. As for us, it has been super.