Free Schooling Resources

Further READINGS On Free Schooling

 The Challenges and Benefits of Unschooling 

(Peter Gray & Gina Riley)

Foundations of Unschooling (John Holt)

Conditions for Self-Directed Learning

Wikipedia Article on Democratic Education

A Survey of Grown Unschoolers (Peter Gray)

Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts and Indigenous Pedagogies

(Linda & Keith Goulet)

How ‘grade obsession’ is detrimental to students and their education 

(Nathan Rickey et. al)

Directory of Democratic Education Schools

• Graves, N. (Ed.) (1993). Learner managed learning: Practice, theory, and policy. Leeds: AW Angus & Co. Limited.

• Hammond, M. & Collins, R. (1991). Self-directed learning: Critical practice. London: Kogan Page Limited.

• Kim, R., Olfman, L., Ryan, T., & Eryilmaz, E. (2014). Leveraging a personalized system to improve self-directed learning in online educational environments. Computers & Education, 70, 150-160.

• Simpson, O. (2000). Supporting students in open and distant learning. London: Kogan Page Limited. 

• Sumuer, E. (2018). Factors related to college students’ self-directed learning with technology. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 34(4):29-. doi:10.14742/ajet.3142

• Tait, J. & Knight, P. (1996). The management of independent learning. London: Kogan Page Limited.

• Zamnah, L.N. & Ruswana, A.M. (2019). Implementation of self-directed learning model to improve students’ self-regulated learning and self-confidence. Journal of Physics Conference Series, 1188(1):12081-. doi:10.1088/1742-6596/1188/1/012081