- Abolish High School
Easy Chair
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Solnit says that we need to recognize that high school doesn't work for most young people, and suggests abolishing it.
- Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A history of Black Mountain College (1933-57), an experimental school which pioneered many educational, cultural, and artistic innovations.
- The Children of the Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An 1960s account o communal child-rearing in Israeli kibbutzim.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- A Decentralist Manifesto
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1958
No political institution can be considered human and properly adapted to the nature of humankind if it in any way infringes upon liberty; if it even in the slightest, interferes with the conditions necessary to individual self-expression and to the free development of the highest potentialities of being human.
- Dream Tower
The Life and Legacy of Rochdale College
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Dream Tower
Resource Type: Film
Published: 1994
Follows the history Rochdale College, a famous experiment in co-operative living and self-directed education in 1960's Toronto.
- Dumbing Us Down
The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
After over 100 years of mandatory schooling in the U.S., literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, learning "disabilities" are skyrocketing, and children and youth are increasingly disaffected.
- Flying University
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An underground educational enterprise that operated from 1885 to 1905 in Warsaw, the historic Polish capital, then under the control of the Russian Empire, and that was revived between 1977 and 1981 in the People's Republic of Poland.
- Freire, Paulo
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy. (1921-1997).
- Frontier College
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Goodman, Paul
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American sociologist, poet, writer, anarchist, social critic, and public intellectual. (1911-1972).
- Illich, Ivan
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Austrian philosopher, Roman Catholic priest and critic of the institutions of contemporary western culture. (1926-2002).
- John Holt: Homeschooling Pioneer and Visionary Progressive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The stereotype of homeschooling as the haven for conservative, religious ideologues overshadows the movement's radically progressive roots. One of the movement's foremost pioneers, John Holt, was an egalitarian atheist who explicitly opposed patriarchy, corresponded with progressive thinkers including Paul Goodman and Noam Chomsky, and helped initiate the still emerging children’s rights movement.
- Merle Langbord Levine, Learning Challenges and Remedial Education Expert
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Neill, A. S.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Scottish progressive educator, author and founder of Summerhill school. (1883-1973).
- On Education
Especially in Early Childhood
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
- Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
- Rochdale
The Runaway Collage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Toronto's Rochdale College began as an experiment in living and learning, and ended as a symbpl of the flower-child Sixties, a financial and social controversy. Sharpe tells the story of the college's seven-year rise and fall.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- Summerhill
A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1960
A.S. Neill describes the ideas and practice of Summerhill school, the alternative school he founded. He expresses his radical opinions on parenthood and child rearing.
- Summerhill: For and Against
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Essays discussing the ideas and pratice of A.S. Neill.
- Teach-in
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Educational forum on any complicated issue, usually an issue involving current political affairs.
- This Magazine is about Schools
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
A Canadian magazine about schools and education founded in 1966.
- This Magazine is About Schools - Volume 5, Number 2
Spring 1971 issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1971
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