Alexander Khost is a father and children's rights advocate. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Tipping Points and founder of Voice of the Children, promoting and facilitating art and activism for young people. He is also Vice President of Friends of the Modern School, supporting the history of anarchistic education, and he works at the homeschooling coop, Brooklyn Apple Academy.
He previously founded the Teddy McArdle Free School, a democratic free school in New Jersey, and more recently he co-founded play:groundNYC, a junkyard playground for children on Governors Island in New York City.
2019-07-04Fear and Loathing with Self-Directed Learners
A first person account of self-directed learners taking appropriate risk, managing anger and fear. Further musing and speculation about the nature of fear and adult discomfort with children taking risks.
2019-06-20Anarchist Pedagogy in Action: Paideia, Escuela Libre
Part one of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.
2019-06-13School Denies the Body
Exploring the role of school in mind-body separation
2019-06-13An Education for the End of the World, Part II
A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.
2019-06-06Unschooling and Democratic Education: A dysfunctional marriage?
One parent’s experience of having moved from unschooling to democratic education, the differences and similarities.
2019-05-30An Education for the End of the World, Part I
A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.
2019-05-22Is Homeschooling Just Coercive Education at Home, or Can It Be Self-Directed Education?
Reflections on a homeschooling journey.
2019-05-06Los Riesgos de la Educación Autodirigida
¿Cuáles son los verdaderos riesgos de la Educación Autodirigida? En este artículo Rebecka Koritz examina los mitos y los miedos acerca de esta innovadora opción educativa.
2019-05-02Let’s Talk About Screens; “Screen Time” and SDE
How SDE spaces allow us to navigate the proliferation of screens.
2019-04-24Children’s Need for Happiness
Distinguishing between children’s true needs, the satisfaction of which result in their well-being, from their false needs, those needs imposed on them by adults, which frustrate the first ones.
2019-04-11Niños auto-dirigidos, padres escolarizados
El desafío mayor viene de la programación que traen los padres y madres acerca de la educación, la enseñanza versus el aprendizaje y la tóxica presión de la sociedad acerca de lo que necesita un niño para ser exitoso y cómo se supone que debe verse el éxito.
2019-04-08Parte 1: Navegando la transición entre la escuela convencional y el Aprendizaje Auto-Dirigido.
De la transición hacia la autonomía. Aprendizaje auto-dirigido.
2019-04-04That Which Is Learned vs. That Which Is Not Learned, and the Unfair Advantage of Human Nature
When we mandate what children learn, we do not know what they might have learned, discovered, or experienced on their own. Are we needlessly smothering knowledge?
2019-04-01Gambling as Experiential Learning
Some self-directed learners are turning to casino gambling to discover logic and mathematics
2019-03-30An Interview With Alexander Khost
The Editor-in-Chief of Tipping Points recounts his involvement in SDE
2019-03-28A Benevolent Dictator is Still a Dictator
Recently, Houston Sudbury School was included in a video on unschooling for reason.com. See how the school came to that decision, working through differences of opinion regarding participation.
2019-03-18Seas Rising Up, Youth Rising Up
On Friday several self-directed learning centers in New York City joined thousands of other young people worldwide as they walked out of school on climate strike
2019-03-14They Only Get One Childhood
The journey of three children and one parent into Self-Directed Education
2019-03-10Libertad Bajo Responsabilidad
Muchas son las personas que confunden libertad con libertinaje. En este artículo Rebecka Koritz explica las diferencias.
2019-03-07“Take Chances, Make Mistakes, and Get Messy!”
Ms. Frizzle and the future of education