There is a wealth of information about Self-Directed Education available online. Listed on this resource page are a few references to get you started and to offer support through the paradigm shift from traditional education models to the Self-Directed Education framework.

Articles

• What Is Self-Directed Education?

• Why Do People Choose Self-Directed Education?

• Survey of Unschoolers is a series of reports by Peter Gray where he thoroughly investigates the impact of self-directed education

• Why Our Coercive System of Schooling Should Topple

• What The Modern World Has Forgotten About Children and Learning

• A Radical Way of Unleashing a Generation of Geniuses

• Back to Basics is a portion of a larger work that interrogates the fundamental purpose and need for schooling

• A Map of The Alternative Education Landscape

• The Challenges of Unschooling

• College Admissions for Alternative Schooled, Homeschooled, and Unschooled Applicants

Videos

• What Is Self-Directed Education? An introductory illustration from Peter Gray and the Alliance for Self-Directed Education

• Culture Hacking Education Eric Bear, a pioneer and missionary for Agile Learning Centers gives an invigorating TED Talk on the marvel of blending Agile tools and self-directed education.

• Changing Education Paradigms An RSA Animate of another great Ken Robinson talk on Education.

• The Crisis of an Outdated Paradigm Tomis, ALC Facilitator on the crisis created by our outdated educational paradigm.

• The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us An articulate RSA Animate of Dan Pink’s famous talk.

• Hackschooling Makes Me Happy A 13 year old homeschooler, Logan LaPlante, describes how he hacks his own education to create the life he wants for himself.

• What If We Trusted You? A great talk by Jerry Michalski about how traditional schools are set up around the belief that children do not want to learn.

• Do Schools Kill Creativity? Famous talk from Ken Robinson.

• Exploring the Realm of Self-Directed Education Akilah S. Richards and Laura Kriegel from the Alliance for Self-Directed Education explain how unschooling, free/democratic schools, learning centers, co-ops and more relate.

People

Below we link to the main websites and blogs of prolific and notable scholars, educators, and practitioners who share their own perspectives, theories, and approaches to self-directed education.

• Peter Gray

• Ken Robinson

• Sugatra Mitra

• Akilah Richards

• A.S. Neil

• Daniel Greenberg

• Yaachov Hecht

• Blake Boles

• John Holt

• Penelope Trunk

Books

Though there are several, these books have become somewhat canon and fundamental to starting and supporting someone on the deschooling path.

• Free To Learn by Peter Gray

• Summerhill by A.S. Neil

• Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar by James Marcus Bach

• The Art of Self-Directed Learning by Blake Boles

• Free At Last by Daniel Greenburg