After years of having conversation with my mom about unschooling she still doesn’t seem to get it. This article is an attempt to explain it to her and anyone else struggling with the concept of unschooling.
Ana Maria HF
An excerpt from the latest Youth Liberation Now zine by Filler Distro.
Lark
Talking to others about SDE is frequently frustrating, due to their misconceptions which they often do not wish to challenge.
Naomi Fisher
Four main points and some reflection on the pros and cons of consent-based education compared to Self-Directed Education.
Francesca Liberatore
Through regular visits to a friend’s farm with my pre-school age kids, I learn how self-directed learning about parenting profoundly shapes their learning.
Mary Chang
Q&As with Peter Gray on his books published by Tipping Points Press.
When we hurry our children through their days, are we inadvertently asking them to rush through their childhoods?
Jenni Mahnaz
A poem about being uprooted.
Daveed Jacobo
Every hierarchy, every abuse, every act of domination that seeks to justify or excuse itself appeals through analogy to the rule of adults over children. We are all indoctrinated from birth in ways of “because I said so.”
William Gillis
What did the coronavirus crisis teach us about education in the US? That we have all the resources we need when we want them.
Crystal Byrd Farmer
Self-Directed Education enables us to take very different educational pathways with our children which particularly suits those who do not fit the mainstream mould.
Naomi Fisher
Deschooling is so much more than moving into unschooling: it is our opportunity to give each other time and space to take back our freedom, to foster lost relationships, values and connections, and to reimagine what our own life, our community and society at large could look like.
Francesca Liberatore
Sudbury Valley School co-founder apologizes to unschoolers, admits to being Billie Eilish groupie.
April Fuels
We do not schedule conversations into neat little blocks of subjects and time. We let curiosity lead us into debates, discussions, and verbal exchange.
Jeana Jones
Comparing some of adults’ biggest fears about Self-Directed Education with what it looks like in reality, based on 10 years of working in an SDE school.
Elizabeth Lund
How children can take control of their own learning
Naomi Fisher
Voice of the Children
You can lead a horse to water, but can you make her fish?
Alexander Khost
Understand how language and metaphors structures one’s mindset toward learning and discover some SDE alternatives.
Mitra Martin
A chat about the difficulties of various ethnic and cultural experiences existing in SDE and unschooling spaces.
Anthony Galloway Jr, Lora Smothers & Mikala Streeter
