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Peter Gray

Below are some links to material by Peter Gray. For videos and audio of Peter Gray, go here.

  • Major links:
  • Children Educate Themselves (2008):
  • Survey of Unschooling families (2012):
  • Survey of Grown Unschoolers (2014):
  • Selected articles:
    • Article 1

      Children Teach Themselves to Read:

      The unschoolers’ account of how children learn to read. (2010)

    • Article 2

      Kids Learn Math Easily When They Control Their Own Learning:

      Math outside of school is fun, useful, and joyfully learned. (2010)

    • Article 3

      Early Academic Training Produces Long-Term Harm:

      Research reveals negative effects of academic preschools and kindergartens. (2015)

    • Article 4

      How Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development:

      Academic skills are best learned when a person wants them and needs them. (2015)

    • Article 5

      Conventional Schooling Conflicts With Trustful Parenting:

      Trustful parenting may be incompatible with conventional schooling. (2009)

    • Article 6

      Freedom from Bullying: How a School Can Be a Moral Community. (2010)

    • Article 7

      Social Norms, Moral Judgments, and Irrational Parenting:

      From Chinese foot binding to today’s extreme constraints on children’s freedom. (2017)

Kenneth Danford links

Below are some links to articles by Ken Danford. For videos and audio of Ken Danford, North Star, and the Liberated Learner network, go here.

Wes Beach links

other educational views

developmental views

  • Brain Architecture – Harvard University Center on the Developing Child
    • Emotional well-being and social competence provide a strong foundation for emerging cognitive abilities, and together they are the bricks and mortar of brain architecture.
    • Toxic stress weakens the architecture of the developing brain, which can lead to lifelong problems in learning, behavior, and physical and mental health.
  • How twisted early childhood education has become – from a child development expert
    • Schools often do not follow developmental science (or common sense), especially for students of low-income families.

nearby related groups

general academic links

  • Link 1: Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Research, chapter on Self-Directed Education
    • As Peter Gray has said, the editors of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Educational Research only recently asked him to write a chapter for them on Self-Directed Education (SDE), and this is the first real indication of acknowledgement by main-stream academia that this is even an area of research!(1)See post #4608 in this Ask Me Anything (AMA) forum thread with Peter Gray. In addition to describing the state of research on SDE, this chapter will give you some idea of who else is doing such research.
  • Link 2a: The Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning (JUAL)
  • Link 2b: Directory of Open Access Journals: JUAL
  • Link 3: Other Education – The Journal of Educational Alternatives

skepticism and concern

Part of being responsible is to imagine how things can go wrong and take steps to make sure we prevent problems or be ready to address them when they arise.

Footnotes

Footnotes
⇧1 See post #4608 in this Ask Me Anything (AMA) forum thread with Peter Gray.