The Harm Of Coercive Schooling

Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : Alliance for Self-Directed Education
ISBN 13 : 9781952837005
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harm of Coercive Schooling written by Peter Gray and published by Alliance for Self-Directed Education. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children, like all human beings, crave freedom, but they are not free in school. Schools operate by methods of coercion (a "request" in school is really an order), enforced with reward, punishment, and threats. Coercion interferes with children's natural, joy-filled and interest-filled ways of learning and turns learning into "work." In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray describes also how schooling promotes bullying, cheating, and showing off; contributes to high rates of anxiety, depression, and even suicide among students; aims to push everyone, regardless of the shape of their personality, through the same square holes; and leads to a lifetime of anxiety dreams. The last two essays show how the harm has moved down even to the youngest students, caused by the misbelief that academic training should start in kindergarten and before. This collection is for everyone who cares about children's wellbeing.

Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : Alliance for Self-Directed Education
ISBN 13 : 9781952837029
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evidence That Self-Directed Education Works written by Peter Gray and published by Alliance for Self-Directed Education. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theory is one thing; empirical evidence is another. Is it true that children can educate themselves well, without coercion or coaxing, when provided with a supportive environment and plenty of opportunity to play, explore, observe, and socialize? In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray presents evidence from a variety of sources that this indeed is true. One essay points out the amazing amount that little children learn before anyone attempts to teach them in any formal way. Another presents evidence from anthropological research that children in hunter-gatherer cultures educated themselves well, for life in their culture, with no formal instruction. This is followed by an essay summarizing the results of research showing that graduates of the Sudbury Valley School-a school designed for Self-Directed Education-have succeeded very well in higher education, jobs, and life in general. The final seven essays all deal with the results of research, conducted by Peter Gray and Gina Riley, into unschooling families and the lives of adults who grew up unschooled. "Unschooling" here is defined as the variety of homeschooling in which children are not subjected to an imposed curriculum but are allowed to follow their own interests and thereby educate themselves.

Author : Reva Jaffe-Walter
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804798426
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coercive Concern written by Reva Jaffe-Walter and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many liberal-minded Western democracies pride themselves on their commitments to egalitarianism, the fair treatment of immigrants, and the right to education. These environments would seem to provide a best-case scenario for the reception of immigrant youth. But that is not always the case. Coercive Concern explores how stereotypes of Muslim immigrants in Western liberal societies flow through public schools into everyday interactions, informing how Muslim youth are perceived by teachers and peers. Beyond simply identifying the presence of racialized speech in schools, this book uncovers how coercive assimilation is cloaked in benevolent narratives of care and concern. Coercive Concern provides an ethnographic critique of the "concern" that animates integration policy in Danish schools. Reva Jaffe-Walter focuses on the experiences of Muslim youth at a public school where over 40% of the student body is of immigrant descent, showing how schools operate as sites of governance. These efforts are led by political leaders who promote national fears of immigrant take-over, by teachers in schools, and by everyday citizens who are concerned about "problems" of immigration. Jaffe-Walter exposes the psychic and material costs immigrant youth endure when living in the shadow of social scrutiny, but she also charts a path forward by uncovering the resources these youth need to attain social mobility and success.

Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : Alliance for Self-Directed Education
ISBN 13 : 9781952837043
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Children Acquire "Academic" Skills Without Formal Instruction written by Peter Gray and published by Alliance for Self-Directed Education. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children who grow up in a literate and numerate environment do not need to be taught how to read or how to use numbers to calculate. They pick these skills up in the course of their everyday living. In this collection of essays, developmental psychologist Peter Gray presents the evidence that this is so. He also presents evidence that teaching-especially when it is forced and comes too early-can interfere with children's learning to read and calculate. In addition, in one essay he describes the difference between Self-Directed Education and progressive education, and in another he presents evidence refuting the claim that children lose academic skills during summer vacation from school (the so-called "summer slide"). This book is especially valuable for parents who are thinking of opting out of standard schooling for their children but are concerned about their children's acquisition of academic skills. It is also valuable for educators who are interested in stretching their understanding of how children naturally learn the kinds of skills that schools try to teach.

Author : Kerry McDonald
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1641600667
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unschooled written by Kerry McDonald and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education has become synonymous with schooling, but it doesn't have to be. As schooling becomes increasingly standardized and test driven, occupying more of childhood than ever before, parents and educators are questioning the role of schooling in society. Many are now exploring and creating alternatives. In a compelling narrative that introduces historical and contemporary research on self-directed education, Unschooled also spotlights how a diverse group of individuals and organizations are evolving an old schooling model of education. These innovators challenge the myth that children need to be taught in order to learn. They are parents who saw firsthand how schooling can dull children's natural curiosity and exuberance and others who decided early on to enable their children to learn without school. Educators who left public school classrooms discuss launching self-directed learning centers to allow young people's innate learning instincts to flourish, and entrepreneurs explore their disillusionment with the teach-and-test approach of traditional schooling.

Author : John Holt
Publisher : Sentient Publications
ISBN 13 : 1591810094
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Instead of Education written by John Holt and published by Sentient Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holt's most direct and radical challenge to the educational status quo and a clarion call to parents to save their children from schools of all kinds.

Author : James R. Muir
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031009711
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isocrates written by James R. Muir and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isocrates is one of the most remarkable and influential figures in the history of human thought. The influence of his ideas in the history of historical writing, rhetoric, the visual arts, music, religion and theology, political science, philosophy and, above all, educational philosophy and practice in Europe, Australia, North America, North Africa, and the Middle East are well established and widely known. This book argues careful study of the educational philosophy of Isocrates and its legacy can contribute to an improved understanding of the historiography of educational thought, his distinctive normative methodology in both political and educational philosophy, and his arguments about the primary importance of the virtues of self-knowledge and realistic self-appraisal for educational philosophers and practitioners. At a time when educational philosophy has an increasingly precarious academic existence and educationists are actively seeking new historiographical and methodological approaches to the philosophical study of education, there is much to be gained by recovering and reevaluating the historiography and normative methodology of Isocrates and the role they play in educational discourse and practice today.

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743203267
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Left Back written by Diane Ravitch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-07-31 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative history of American education reforms in this century, a distinguished scholar makes a compelling case that our schools fail when they consistently ignore their central purpose--teaching knowledge.

Author : Ginny MEd Yurich
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 1493443380
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Until the Streetlights Come On written by Ginny MEd Yurich and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It may shock you to learn that we spend an average of 4-7 minutes outside each day--while we spend 4-7 hours using devices with screens. Needless to say, our physical, mental, emotional, and relational health has suffered. But there is a ready solution: get outside! A homeschooling mother of five and founder of the global 1000 Hours Outside movement, Ginny Yurich explains how we got to this point--and how to get back to a healthier, more engaging relationship with the world outside. With a mom's heart and an educator's eye, Ginny shows you · the importance of unstructured play for children · what boredom actually contributes to our brains · the value of sunlight and social play · the role of play in lifelong learning · how to make time outside more attractive to your child than screentime · and much more If you want your kids to grow up curious, resilient, and with a sense of adventure and community, it's essential to make outside play a priority. This book shows you why and how.

Author : ROMÉO GAUVREAU B.A. Ph.D. in B.S.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1490740562
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coercion: the Achilles' Heel of Education written by ROMÉO GAUVREAU B.A. Ph.D. in B.S. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My goal in writing this book is not to try to instruct you or to indoctrinate you. Its rather to present you with a menu of theories, reflections and certain facts concerning civilization and its difficulties in advancing to the next level. That next level, for me, would be to take heed of and to put into practice the 2600 year old Golden rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Its a rule that everybody understands, but somehow, we have not yet succeeded to apply it at all levels of the worlds societies. Family is the institution where we apply it the most; although more in some than in others. The school is an institution where the golden rule is sacrificed in great part due to its coercive approach and its lame pedagogy. The government is the institution where its the least applied, due to corruption and abuse of power, and the omnipresent coercion towards other countries and towards its own citizen. Is it to say that were doomed and that theres nothing to be done? I tried and hope I succeeded in answering that question in this book.