Unschooling Reading List

How Children Learn by John Holt (rev. 1995, Perseus Publishing)

Learning All the Time by John Holt (reprint 1990, Addison Wesley
Publishing Company)

Instead of Education by John Holt (reprint 2004, Sentient Publications)

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling by John Holt and
Patrick Farenga (rev. 2003, Perseus Publishing)

The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn

The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School by Valerie Fitzenreiter

Challenging Assumptions in Education by Wendy Priesnitz (2000, The
Alternate Press)

The Book of Learning and Forgetting by Frank Smith (1998, Teacher’s
College Press)

Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John
Taylor Gatto (rev. 2002, New Society Publishers)

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s
Classroom by Mary Griffith (1998, Prima)

Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans,
A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn (1999, Mariner Books)

Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don’t Go to School by Grace Llewellyn
(1993, Lowry House)

In Their Own Way by Thomas Armstrong (rev. 2000, Jeremy P. Tarcher)

Better Than School: One Family’s Declaration of Independence by Nancy
Wallace (1983, Larson Publications)

Child’s Work: Taking Children’s Choices Seriously by Nancy Wallace
(1990, Holt Associates)

Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich (1971, Harper & Row)