Alliance for Self-Directed Education
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The Harm of Coercive Schooling
$12.95 Add to cartChildren, like all human beings, crave freedom, but they are not free in school. Schools operate by methods of coercion (a “request” in school is really an order), enforced with reward, punishment, an
- Author: Gray, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1952837006
- Language: English
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Evidence that Self-Directed Education Works
$12.95 Add to cartTheory is one thing; empirical evidence is another. Is it true that children can educate themselves well, without coercion or coaxing, when provided with a supportive environment and plenty of opportu
- Author: Gray, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1952837022
- Language: English
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Rigged
$15.95 Add to cartFor Fisher Haskins, school is a torturous waste of time, and not just because he can’t shake his reputation as the nice-but-dumb kid. After his evening job washing boats on The Row, he barely has time
- Author: Smack, Hazel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: April 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1952837081
- Language: English
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How Children Acquire “Academic” Skills Without Formal Instruction
$12.95 Add to cartChildren who grow up in a literate and numerate environment do not need to be taught how to read or how to use numbers to calculate. They pick these skills up in the course of their everyday living. I
- Author: Gray, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1952837049
- Language: English
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Mother Nature’s Pedagogy: Biological Foundations for Children’s Self-Directed Education
$12.95 Add to cartChildren come into the world biologically designed to educate themselves. Their natural curiosity, playfulness, sociability, willfulness, adventurousness, tendency to look ahead, and desire to do well
- Author: Gray, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1952837065
- Language: English
