Resources to learn more about unconventional education and other related topics

Articles

Against Students: Article by Sara Ahmed

Carceral Educations: Article by Sabrina Alli

Evidence Emerges to Support SDE Article by Arthur Grant

Is no curriculum, no classrooms, no teachers, and no assessment (in short, No Education) the future of learning? Article by Jaya Ramchandani

Kid Stuff: Article by Molly Knefel

On the Wildness of Children: Article by Carol Black

Reform School: Article by Malcolm Harris

The Motivation Paradox by Jessica Koehler Ph.D.

Books

Becoming and Being a Teacher- Confronting Traditional Norms to Create New Democratic Realities: Book Edited by P.L. Thomas

Beyond Survival- Strategies and Stories From the Transformative Justice Movement: Book Edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmipiepzna-Samarasinha

Childism: Confronting Prejudice Against Children: Book by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl

The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair: Book by Ann Linnea and Christina Baldwin

Cybernetics & Human Knowing: Essays for an ecology of ideas: Book by Gregory Bateson

The Death and Life of the Great American School System- How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education: Book by Diane Ravitch

Educating for Insurgency: The Roles of Young People in Schools of Poverty: Book by Jay Gillen

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds: Book by adrienne maree brown

Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life: Book by Peter O. Gray

Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times: Book by Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery

Look to the Mountain: Book by Gregory Cajete, PH.D.

Making It Up as We Go Along- The Story of the Albany Free School: Book by Chris Mercogliano

The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century: Book by Danny Glover, grace lee boggs, and Scott Kurashige

Out of the Ruins- The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces: Book Edited by Robert H. Haworth and John M. Elmore

A Pedagogy for Liberation: Book by Ira Shor and Paulo Freire

Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project: Book by Bob Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr.

Raising Free People- Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work: Book by Akilah S. Richards

Rethinking Education: Book by Adam Unwin and John Yandell

Schools on Trial- How Freedom and Creativity Can Fix Our Educational Malpractice: Book by Nikhil Goyal

Someone Has to Fail- The Zero-Sum Game of Public Schooling: Book by David F. Labaree

Syllabus- Notes From An Accidental Professor: Book by Lynda Barry

Weapons of Mass Instruction: Book by John Taylor Gatto

Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams- Civilization and the Birth of Education: Book by Dr. Layla AbdelRahim

Websites

Alliance for Self Directed Education

The Circle Way

CrossRoads Anti-Racism Organizing and Training

Living Justice Press

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth