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Direct linkMills, Martin, Ed.; McCluskey, Gillean, Ed. – Trentham Books, 2018
'Alternative education' encompasses a diversity of schooling types and organizations. "International Perspectives on Alternative Education" explores alternative forms of schooling from the position of academics, policy workers, and those working and studying in such schools across the world. The first-hand accounts by those working and…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Foreign Countries, Social Justice, Academic Achievement
Vaughan, Mark – Open University Press, 2006
Summerhill is a world-renowned school in England where pupils decide when and what they will learn. The school was established in 1921 by A. S. Neill, who was named by the Times Educational Supplement in 1999 as one of the twelve most influential educators of the 20th Century. Known as "the oldest children's democracy in the world,"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Students, Democracy, Free Schools
Hern, Matt, Ed. – 1996
This book challenges common assumptions about the nature of education and the need for formal schooling and provides an overview of promising alternatives to compulsory education. Following a foreword by Ivan Illich, four sections cover the philosophical roots of opposition to compulsory public education, current analyses of the public school…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Principles, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
Download full textLeue, Mary M., Ed. – 2000
This book compiles articles, interviews, student writings, and other offerings first published in SKOLE, the Journal of Alternative Education, 1995-99. Sections include: (1) talking about education (seven interviews on the foundations of learning, the Modern School movement, educational philosophy at the Albany Free School, life at a Japanese free…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Community Schools, Conferences, Educational Philosophy
1992
The Sudbury Valley School was founded in 1968 by a group of Massachusetts parents who felt that a child is a person, worthy of full respect as a human being. It was intended that a nurturing environment be created in which the children themselves chose what they wished to do and scheduled their time. Democracy was a cornerstone of the school's…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationLeue, Mary M., Ed. – 1996
This anthology compiles over 90 articles, short pieces, and book reviews originally published in Skole: The Journal of Alternative Education. The entries are arranged in 10 sections: schools and school people, teaching and learning, teaching and learning at home, history of innovative education, student writings, social change and comment, battle…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Educational Environment, Educational Philosophy, Educational Practices
