Learn More About Our Philosophy

Books.

• The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything – by Sir. Ken Robinson

• Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work - by Akliah Richards

• The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Child More Control Over Their Lives – by William Stixrud PhD and Ned Johnson

• How Kids Learn – by John Holt

• How Kids Fail – by John Holt

• Untigering - Iris Chen

• Free to Learn – by Dr. Peter Gray

• Unconditional Parenting – by Alfie Kohn

• Under Pressure: Rescuing our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting – by Carl Honore

• One Size Does Not Fit All – Nikhil Goyal

Videos.

There are many articles and videos in support of this progressive model of education. Here are a few to check out:

• Raising Free People - Akliah Richards

• Educational Paradigm Change – Sir Ken Robinson (video)

• The Learning Revolution Has Started - Gever Tully -TEDxYouth@Madrid

• The Decline of Play – Ted Talk – Dr. Peter Gray (video)

• The Child-Driven Education – Ted Talk – Sugata Mitra (video)

• Wild Learning (documentary)

• Chasing Childhood (documentary)

• Schooling the Word- Carol Black

Articles.

• Is Unschooling the Way to Decolonize Education? - Next City

• What is Self-Directed Education? - Alliance for SDE

• Decolonizing School - Unschooling School

• Decolonizing education: My Reflection Matters supports Connecticut home-schoolers in raising ‘free people’ outside the system

• Psychology Today Freedom to Learn – blog by Dr. Peter Gray

• Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education – Published Research by Peter Gray and David Chanoff

• Homeschooling is Our Protest - PBS

• But What is Unschooling? A Question from My Mother. | Alliance for Self-Directed Education

• Unschooling As An Act of Resistance | Alliance for Self-Directed Education

Podcasts.

• Fare of the Free Child- Akilah Richards

• Exploring Unschooling- Living Joyfully

• Off-Trail Learning- Blake Boles

• The New Schools