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  1. Abolish High School
    Easy Chair
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Solnit says that we need to recognize that high school doesn't work for most young people, and suggests abolishing it.
  2. Alternatives Vorlesungsverzeichnis Nr. 5
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1983
  3. Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    A history of Black Mountain College (1933-57), an experimental school which pioneered many educational, cultural, and artistic innovations.
  4. Can Free Schools Work?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1985
    Before starting on another round of alternative education projects, it might be helpful to try to understand why few of the last round's projects achieved long term success.
  5. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  6. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  7. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
  8. A Decentralist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1958
    No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
  9. Dream Tower
    The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
  10. Dream Tower
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 1994
    Follows the history Rochdale College, a famous experiment in co-operative living and self-directed education in 1960's Toronto.
  11. Dumbing Us Down
    The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2017
    After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected.
  12. Exploring Alternatives: Free Schools
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969
    Since our schools and universities are unwilling to adopt basic, or even moderate, reform, the only way to achieve a worthwhile education is through free schools.
  13. Flying University
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland.
  14. Freire, Paulo
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).
  15. Goodman, Paul
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
  16. Illich, Ivan
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
  17. Inside Rochdale
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1971
    What Rochdale has done is to provide a meeting ground on which those disenchanted with the running of modern society can attempt to work out an alternative environment.
  18. John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging children’s rights movement.
  19. Learning for the Revolution
    A review of 'Schooling for "Good Rebels": Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Socialist sunday schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
  20. Neill, A. S.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
  21. On Education
    Especially in Early Childhood
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1926   Published: 1960
  22. Paul Goodman: Writing on the Web
    Resource Type: Website
    Writings of the social critic Paul Goodman.
  23. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
    A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1985
    A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
  24. Rochdale
    The Runaway Collage
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
  25. Schooling for "Good Rebels"
    Socialist Education for Children in the United States, 1900-1920
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    Teitelbaum captures in detail the spirited devotion and revolutionary fervor of the Socialist Sunday School movement whose themes of solidarity, cooperation, and concern for others are badly needed today. Socialist Sunday Schools were part of a thriving radical culture which included daily newspapers, clubs, lectures, festivals and parades.
  26. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
  27. Summerhill 
    A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1960
    A.S. Neill describes the ideas and practice of Summerhill school, the alternative school he founded. He expresses his radical opinions on parenthood and child rearing.
  28. Summerhill: For and Against
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    Essays discussing the ideas and pratice of A.S. Neill.
  29. Teach-in
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs.
  30. This Magazine is about Schools
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1973
    A Canadian magazine about schools and education founded in 1966.
  31. This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2
    Spring 1971 issue
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1971
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