Tropical cruises, dips in the pool, white sand beaches in Bali—these are things we expect from posh summer vacations. But beyond vacation destinations they’ve become classroom venues for families like the Mumfords from Australia who are following a new movement in education: worldschooling.
Nicky and Brad Mumford spent last fall kicking off what is becoming a grand tour of southeast Asia, visiting Vietnam, Malaysia, and Bali with more trips, including Japan, still in store. They entered a trend that began around 2000 as something “counterculture” but exploded into the mainstream after the pandemic. Worldschooling is an extension of unschooling, which is an extension of homeschooling. It’s based on hands-on learning via travelling the world.
