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

• Living Joyfully Podcast

• The Unschooling Life — Use your podcast app to search for this series

Research

• A Survey of Grown Unschoolers — Peter Gray

• Grown Unschoolers: Profiles in the own words

• Foundations of Unschooling — John Holt

• Unschooling Dads

• 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

• Canada University Paths

• Conditions for self-directed learning

Deschooling

• Deschooling in a school

• 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

• Why are you still sending your kids to school? The case for helping them leave, chart their own paths and prepare for adulthood at their own pace — Blake Boles

Other democratic schools and centres

• 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

• Democratic Schools Around the World