In this excerpt from Resisting Illegitimate Authority, Bruce E. Levine surveys the means by which conventional schooling punishes anti-authoritarian impulses and primes children for conformity.
Bruce E. Levine
Iris Chen, author of the blog Untigering, shares about her family’s SDE journey, #SelfDirectedStories
El Mundo Donde los Niños Son Personas
Nuestra falta de confianza en los niños genera la necesidad de controlarlos a ellos y lo que aprenden, cómo y cuándo. Rebecka Koritz explica su punto de vista.
Rebecka Koritz
Voice of the Children
An examination of role playing games as a microcosm of healthy Self-Directed Education environments
Alexander Khost
How a teenager who has been unschooling can begin preparation for academic study of STEM.
Judy Arnall
John Taylor Gatto (1935–2018) was an award-winning schoolteacher and author whose public embrace of Self-Directed Education in the 1990s shocked many educators and motivated many […]
Patrick Farenga
Young people are happier at Sudbury than the students in conventional schools because of three important aspects of the Sudbury model. Sudbury provides a place of happiness by removing arbitrary stresses, by allowing students autonomy, and by giving space for true socialization.
Cassidy Younghans
Trust and authenticity are central to the practice of Self-Directed Education.
Bria Bloom
The Self-Directed Bookworm
What does it take to raise self-directed learners: kids who wants to do stuff, make stuff, and learn stuff on their own, without coercion?
Blake Boles
One of the hidden lessons of school is that we can be categorised by our ability, which then affects how we see ourselves and other people. This makes no sense within self-directed education, meaning that learners can retain their trust and joy in their capacity to learn.
Naomi Fisher
El Mundo Donde los Niños Son Personas
Todos los papás quieren brindar a sus hijos la mejor educación, pero ¿cómo te aseguras de hacer la elección adecuada para ellos?
Rebecka Koritz
Luka has had a totally self-directed education. This article discusses the vital foundations of that education, especially the Continuum Concept.
Kris Kolff
The strict guidelines of a graded writing system destroys passionate writing in schools.
Logan Westberg
Contrasting the philosophy and practices of the Agile Learning Center with the motives behind the collaboration of compulsory school systems and the tech industry.
Kelly Seacrest
Voice of the Children
Musings on the best possible way to be with one another
Alexander Khost
How organized sports have co-opted play and why early organized sports aren’t a great option for kids.
Laura Grace Weldon
How I learned that my kids are different
Gary Bloom
Self-directed learners are natural scientists and the exploration that they carry out is genuine research in a way that school science mostly is not.
Naomi Fisher
A Tipping Points podcast
Bria Bloom & Alexander Khost
El Mundo Donde los Niños Son Personas
Hay muchas razones por qué la escuela convencional falla. La más grande es porque dejamos que valores obsoletos dirijan el aprendizaje.
Rebecka Koritz
