We are unschoolers . We are here to share our approaches with you so you have an open mind and heart to listen to our children because every child is special.
Our world is changing, the entire value system of knowledge and insight is rapidly evolving. We need to evolve as well and create alternatives from the ground-up, from us parents. If you even begin to rethink about schools and learning – we are happy.
This is our aim, the rest is up to you.
K V & Wai Leng
We are parents concerned about our children’s future. We are concern that the education process that is provided does not meet the needs of our children and that education continues to be politicised. We are also concern that our children’s core values may be lost. Above all, we are concern that out our children’s true potential are not achieved.
We believe, that education should be liberated and lead to liberation of our minds – discover ourselves and to cultivate the potential in us all. It is the acknowledgment that each of us are special in our own ways.
To need to take responsibility of your child/ren’s learning because parents want to assume a bigger role in the education of their children. We want children to learn naturally – meaning, that they are able to use their naturally inquisitive and full of wonder kind of minds to explore and learn about the world around them. To do this, parents must view and value their children with love and respect and trust them to learn with all their physical as well as mental senses. We must give them space to express themselves through movements, art, music, songs and poems, whichever that attracts them most. We must allow them to speak their minds and say what is in their hearts.
In this site, we share our thoughts and experiences on education and learning as we take pro-active steps to shoulder responsibilities for our children. We strongly believe this has to begin from our hearts with compassion and (hopefully, to some extent), wisdom.
We are compelled to share our experiences to help parents educate their children. We strongly believe that in any education environment, it has to be children first and that they deserve all the respect and encouragement any individual need. We need to help them bring out their true potentials.
This is why we have chosen homeschool as our learning process, as our process of liberation as it were. This begins from the home, from our hearts.
This is our journey and our thoughts to share, we hope you will find yours.
Wai Leng authored two books, “Life after Babies” (available free online via FamilyPlace) and recently “Learning Beyond Schooling” (Pelanduk, 2008). Her passion is in art, music and writing and have been actively helping students express and discover themselves through creativity.
She speaks regularly at seminars, forums and conferences on holistic education and creativity. Wai Leng has also composed and produced an Buddhist Songs album, entitled “True Friends“.
Together, Wai Leng & KV Soon founded this page Learning Beyond Schooling to encourage and explore alternatives in education, ie homeschooling and other approaches and help parents understand their children better and to help them maximize their potentials. They are founders of FamilyPlace, Malaysia’s first online parenting and family website in 1997 funded by the National IT Council. Wai Leng and K V are regular speakers at various events and provide advise and guidance to parents embracing this and the borderless world, they are regularly featured in the media (both online and print). They write regularly and have a column entitled Engaged Parenting in the Magazine, ParenThink!. They are also active practicing Buddhists who help run a small center in Kota Kemuning and blogs on Random Thoughts and Beyond Buddhism.
Wai Leng and K V are currently homeschooling their three children 15, 13 and 6 who truly believe that they are the FUTURE.
Hi Wai Leng and KV,
Sorry, just now I accidentally pressed enter. I really don’t know where to begin. I am really frustrated at the education level in Malaysia and I think that I can do a better job at educating the kid. The only thing I feel sad about if I homeschool my kid is that he will lose a lot of opportunity to socialize with other kids. However, after I read about all the activities in your website, I am quite excited to read about the homeschooler camp and LAT. Is it possible for you to give me your contact number so that I can reach you to find out more about homeschooling and get in touch with other homeschooling parents? Thanks.
Regards,
Poh Li
hi Poh Li,
My youngest child is 6 this year and we have no plans to put him into kindy – not the best environment for active boys to grow and learn! He is pretty happy with homeschooling and tells everyone who asks whether he goes to school that he homeschools! He plays with his neighbours, and has friends at Sunday school as well as kids from playgroup and homeschooling groups. So I don’t think they miss out on socializing at all. A 13-year-old boy who goes to school with about 40 kids in his class comes home everyday and says tht he feels LONELY! So, being amongst many kids on a daily basis does not mean that your kid is going to make many friends. It just means that he’ll have many other kids around him
You can sign up as a friend on our Facebook learning beyond schooling and meet many other like-minded friends there! We also post our get-togethers and activities there too!
regards,
waileng