Living in Costa Rica leads one unschooling family to examine the culture of institutionalized schooling.
Janet LoSole
Peter Gray Interviews Carlo Ricci, Founder and Editor of the Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning .
Micromanaging and making kids’ lives risk-free makes them unhappy and unhealthy, and it’s not good for the planet either. Parents can give kids their lives back by refocusing on their own, making everyone more well-adjusted and joyful.
Megan Baker
A beautiful real-life example of how life-learning, process-orientation and collaboration can trump lectures, product-orientation and competition.
Je'anna L Clements
By preserving their innate autonomy, Self-Directed Education helps teens become confident, capable adults earlier than their schooled peers.
Katherine Williams
Voice of the Children
A romantic tale of becoming involved in the hundred year history of an anarchistic colony of self-directed educators and children
Alexander Khost
El Mundo Donde los Niños Son Personas
Rebecka Koritz explica bajo qué circunstancias los niños y jóvenes aprenden de manera óptima en un contexto de Educación Autodirigida.
Rebecka Koritz
Exploring the Relationship between SDE and the UNCRC: Part 1: The Good News.
Je'anna L Clements
Parents of an Autistic child let engagement, trust, and intuition guide their son’s development
Deborah Sale-Butler
A former soldier aims to create a more loving world through family-based education
Brian Huskie
Children join forces at DIWO City,an adventure space in Madrid, to develop ambitious projects through a combination of free play and democratic meetings where it’s up to the children to decide how they want to spend time together.
Emma Forde of Rethinking Parenting reviews this important book about learning to read outside of schooling
Relationships are the heart and soul of the community. Here’s how they first developed at Mont-Libre.
The 2016 election ignites a child’s interest in American political history and prompts a family trip to the nation’s capital
How do these time-honored educational concepts work together in Self-Directed Education?
Peter Gray tries to avoid using the word “should.” Here’s why he’s making an exception…
A former homeschooler traces the roots of her successful coding career to a favorite childhood game
Our interview with three successful summer camps that support Self-Directed Education
Let’s first start with the good news. It happened so fast that you may not be aware of it, but democratic schools are booming in France.
The continued relevance of John Holt’s Freedom and Beyond
