Part two of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.

The Story of the Fifteenth Street School

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.

Maybe it isn’t that school is so structured because kids are incapable, but that kids seem incapable because we only see what they are doing in schools that are so structured.

Part one of four of a collection of essays from the book Anarchist Pedagogies.

Exploring the role of school in mind-body separation

A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.

One parent’s experience of having moved from unschooling to democratic education, the differences and similarities.

A discussion of self-direction in the era of climate change.

Reflections on a homeschooling journey.

The founder of Peer Unschooling Network talks about the projects he is working on and his experiences with mental health rights and children’s rights.

¿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.

How SDE spaces allow us to navigate the proliferation of screens.

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.

Schools often make us dependent on schooling by convincing us that it is the best or only place learning can occur.