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“Childhood is not preparation for adulthood - it is a part of life.” - A. Neill

“Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction.” - Anne Sullivan

Contents 1 Intro 2 Alternative schooling 2.1 Unschooling 2.2 Homeschooling 2.3 Free schooling 2.3.1 Democratic education 3 Research 3.1 Literature 3.2 Links

Intro

• See also:
  • Miseducation
  • Critical thinking
  • Intentional community
  • Pedagogy (learning strategies focused on children)
    • Critical pedagogy
  • Gifted education
  • Andragogy (learning strategies focused on adults)

Alternative schooling

Unschooling

• "Unschooling refers to a range of educational philosophies and practices centering around allowing children to learn through their natural life experiences, including child directed play, game play, household responsibilities, and social interaction, rather than through the confines of a conventional school."

• See also:
  • "From home schooling to 'unschooling'"

Homeschooling

(todo: home and community schooling)

• John Taylor Gatto - US education expert and activist for more educational freedom
  • johntaylorgatto.com
  • "Parents, 54 unique benefits of Homeschooling"

Free schooling

• There are three manifestations of a free school that operate today: [1]
  • "An "anarchist free school", can be a decentralized network in which skills, information, and knowledge are shared without hierarchy or the institutional environment of formal schooling. The open structure of this type of free school is intended to encourage self-reliance, critical consciousness, and personal development."
    • See: Unschooling
  • Democratic free schools
  • "Finally, some free schools are named such because they do not require the payment of fees/tuition for attendance. They may incorporate a variety of philosophical manifestations."

Democratic education

• "Democratic education is a complex theory of learning and school governance in which students and staff in a democratic school participate in a free and equal school democracy. In such institutions, there is typically shared decision-making among students and staff on matters concerning living, working, and learning together." [2]

• See also:
  • List of democratic schools

• Sovereingty issues:
  • Government funding of schools?
  • Curricula and teachers

• Quotes:
  • "I'd be very disappointed if a Summerhill child became Prime Minister. I'd feel I'd failed." -- A.S. Neill
  • "No one is wise enough or good enough to mould the character of any child. What is wrong with our sick, neurotic world is that we have been moulded, and an adult generation that has seen two great wars and seems about to launch a third should not be trusted to mould the character of a rat" -- A.S. Neill
  • "What cannot be doubted is that a piece of fascinating and valuable educational research is going on here which it would do all educationists good to see" -- Report by Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, 1949

• See also:
  • EducationRevolution.org
  • Summerhill School

Research

Literature

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Links

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