Resources
Need a crash course on self-directed learning? Watch these three presentations from experts in the alternative schooling field.
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Videos
Hackschooling - Logan LaPlante (11 min)
Unschooling - John Holt excerpt from the documentary Class Dismissed (3 min)
Class Dismissed - trailer
Pat Farenga - extended interview from the documentary Class Dismissed (1hr 27 min)
The Hackschoolers Mindset - Tejaswi Polimetla (9 min)
I’m 17 - Kate Simonds (13 min)
I will not let an exam result decide my fate - Sulli Breaks spoken word (6 min)
Every Parent, Teacher and Student needs to hear this - Jay Shetty spoken word (4min)
Podcasts
The Unschooling Life - using your podcast app do a search and find this series
Research
A Survey of Grown Unschoolers - Peter Gray
Foundations of Unschooling by John Holt
Follow up of Sudbury Valley Graduates
The Challenges and Benefits of Unschooling - Peter Gray & Gina Riley
Earning our own money. Homeschoolers 13 and under tell their stories
Teenage Homeschoolers: College or Not? - Pat Farenga
Deschooling
A Call for Re-Thinking Schooling and Leadership in the Time of Covid-19
Living Joyfully’s collection of all things Deschooling!
Books
The Teenage Liberation Handbook - Grace Llewellyn
Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers who don’t go to school tell their own stories - Grace Llewellyn
Unschooling to University - Judy Arnall
Parenting for Social Change: Transform Childhood, Transform the World - Teresa Graham Brett
How Children Fail - John Holt
How Children Learn - John Holt
Teach Your Own - John Holt
Free to Learn - Peter Gray
Natural Born Learners - Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
The Art of Self-Directed Learners - Blake Boles
Democratic Schools and Centres around the world
Sudbury Valley - Founded in 1968 a school based on a clear vision of the individual freedom and of a community governed equally by all its members. A model approach for many SDL schools and centres
Summerhill School - Founded in 1921, it continues to be an influential model for progressive, democratic education around the world.
Liberated Learners - Liberated Learning Centres across the world. Passages is proud to be a member of this network