 | Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £3.65 Schooling does little but teach young people to follow orders as cogs in the industrial machine
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 | Schooling as Violence: How Schools Harm Pupils and Societies by Clive Harber
Buy new: £26.13 / Used from: £33.56 Violence towards children originating in school is common, systematic and widespread.
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 | Bullycide: Death at Playtime by Neil Marr
Buy new: £13.42 / Used from: £6.50 An expose of child suicide caused by bullying at school.
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 | Deschooling Society (Open Forum) by Ivan Illich
Buy new: £6.17 / Used from: £3.40 Not an easy read but well worth it.
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 | Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn
Buy new: £7.97 / Used from: £5.85 Motivating people by working with them instead of doing things to them.
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 | Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn
Buy used from: £1.16 How to rescue our families and our children's love of learning.
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 | How Children Learn (Penguin Education) by John Holt
Buy new: £7.11 / Used from: £3.24 Learning is as natural as breathing.
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 | How Children Fail (Classics in child development) by John Holt
Buy used from: £7.75 Insights into the problems of classroom learning,
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 | The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach by Howard Gardner
Buy new: £9.21 / Used from: £2.02 Gardner shows how our current educational practices and institutions are ill-suited to our minds and natural patterns of learning.
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 | Compulsory Schooling Disease: How Children Absorb Fascist Values by Chris Shute
Buy new: £6.26 / Used from: £3.28 School revealed a place where might is right, the culture of the bully rules and the rights and feelings of the child are always of secondary importance
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| Alice Miller: The Unkind Society, Parenting and Schooling (The educational heretics series) by Chris Shute
Buy new: £7.20 / Used from: £3.46 Why good classroom discipline may be nothing more than unrecognised abuse
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 | The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School by Neil Postman
Buy new: £6.09 / Used from: £3.85 The real purpose of state schooling
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 | Can't Go Won't Go: An Alternative Approach to School Refusal by Mike Fortune-Wood
Buy new: £11.99 / Used from: £9.34 About children who refuse to go to school
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 | Doing it Their Way: Home-based Education and Autonomous Learning by Jan Fortune-Wood
Buy new: £7.99 / Used from: £6.84 Alternative parenting and teaching model
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 | Life-Enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £4.00 The most important book on the list - what schools are getting wrong and how to do it right
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