Education, Childhood and the Institution of School
* = must read
AbdelRahim, Layla. (2014). Wild Children - Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education. Fernwood Publishing.
* Black, Carol. (2016). “On the Wildness of Children”. Carol Black. Retrieved from http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children/
Bowers, C.A. (2001). Educating for Eco-Justice and Community. University of Georgia Press.
* Bowers, C.A. (1992). Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes. State University of New York Press.
Bowers, C.A. (2005). The False Promises of Constructivist Theories of Learning: A Global and Ecological Critique. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Bowers, C.A. (2000). “Four Double Binds that Limit the Development of an Eco-Justice Pedagogy.” Retrieved from http://www.cabowers.net/pdf/Four%20Double%20Binds.pdf
Bowers, C.A. (2000). Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability. University of Georgia Press.
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. (1977). Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reforms and the Contradictions of Economic Life. Basic Books.
Burghardt, Gordon M. (2014). “A Brief Glimpse at the Long Evolutionary History of Play”. Retrieved from http://abc.sciknow.org/archive_files/201402/20140201_Burghart.pdf
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Alliance for Childhood, & Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment (2012). “Facing the Screen Dilemma: Young Children, Technology and Early Education.” Retrieved from http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/sites/default/files/facingthescreendilemma.pdf
Chawla, Louise. (2009). "Growing Up Green: Becoming an Agent of Care for the Natural World". Retrieved from http://www.peecworks.org/peec/peec_reports/01795CA8-001D0211.34/jdpchawla.pdf
Chawla, Louise. (2012). "The Importance of Access to the Nature for Young Children". Retrieved from http://earlychildhoodmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ECM118_11_The-importance-of-access-to-nature_Louise-Chawla.pdf
* Chawla, Louise. (2006). “Learning To Love the Natural World Enough to Protect It”. Retrieved from https://www.ntnu.no/documents/10458/19133135/Chawla1.pdf
Churchill, Ward. (2004). Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. City Lights Publishers.
Cobb, Edith. (1959). The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood. Daedalus 88/3. MIT Press.
Davis, John. (2004). “Psychological Benefits of Nature Experiences: An Outline of Research and Theory. Soucraft. Retrieved from http://www.soulcraft.co/essays/psychological_benefits_of_nature_experiences.pdf
Department of Conservation. (2011). “Benefits of Connecting Children With Nature”. Retrieved from http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/getting-involved/students-and-teachers/benefits-of-connecting-children-with-nature.pdf
* Gatto, John Taylor. (2002). Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. New Society Publishers.
* Gatto, John Taylor. (2010). Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling. New Society Publishers.
Gray, Peter. (2008). "A Brief History of Education". Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200808/brief-history-education
* Gray, Peter. (2011). "The Decline of Play and the Rise of Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents". Retrieved from http://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/3-4-article-gray-decline-of-play.pdf
Gray, Peter. (2008). "The Educative Functions of Free Play and Exploration". Retrieved from http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/Gray03.pdf
* Gray, Peter. (2013). Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Resilient, and Better Students for Life. Basic Books.
Gray, Peter. (2009). “The Headman was a Woman: For Batek, Nuturance = Leadership”. Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200905/the-headman-was-woman-batek-nurturance-leadership
Gray, Peter. (2015). “How Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development”. Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201506/how-early-academic-training-retards-intellectual-development
Gray, Peter. (2009). "Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence". Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/attachments/1195/play-h-g-social-existence-ajp.pdf
* Gray, Peter. (2013). “The Play Deficit”. Retrieved from https://www.sd43.bc.ca/elementary/hamptonpark/Announcements/Attachments/160/The%20play%20deficit%20Peter%20Gray.pdf
Gray, Peter. (2011). “The Special Value of Children's Age-Mixed Play”. Retrieved from
https://www.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/attachments/1195/ajp-age-mixing-published.pdf
Hathaway, Warren, Hargreaves, J., Thompson, G., and D. Novitsky. (1992). “A Study into the Effects of Light on Children of Elementary School Age – A Case of Daylight Robbery”. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343686.pdf
Holt, John. (1972). Freedom and Beyond. Dutton.
Illich, Ivan. (2000). Deschooling Society. Mario Boyars Publishers.
Kohn, Alfie. (2011). “Five Not-So-Obvious Propositions About Play”. Retrieved from http://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/play/?print=pdf
Kohn, Alfie. (1992). No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Houghton Mifflin.
Kohn, Alfie. (2011). Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling. Beacon Press.
* Kohn, Alfie. (2005). Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason. Atria Books.
Lamb, Michael and Barry Hewlett. (2005). Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Cultural Perspectives. Aldine Transaction.
Liedloff, Jean. (1986). The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost. Da Capo Press.
Louv, Richard. (2008). Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Algonquin Books.
Munoz, Dr. Sarah Anne. (2009). "Children in the Outdoors: A Literature Review". Sustainable Development Research Centre. Retrieved from http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/images/Children%20in%20the%20outdoors%20literature%20review_tcm4-597028.pdf
* Mwanzia, Jessica. (2013). So, What’s Wrong With School? 125 Reasons Not to Send Your Kids. Lulu Publishing.
* Narvaez, Darcia. (2012). "The 99%: Development and Socialization Within an Evolutionary Context: Growing Up to Become 'A Good and Useful Human Being'". Retrieved from http://www3.nd.edu/%7Ednarvaez/documents/Narvaez99percent2012FINAL.pdf
Narvaez, Darcia, Peter Gray, James J. McKenna, Agustin Fuentes and Kristin Valentino. "Children's Development in Light of Evolution and Culture". Retrieved from http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/mrossano/grad_cog/ancestral%20landscapes/chapter%201.pdf
Penetito, Wally. (2011). What's Maori About Maori Education? Victoria University Press.
Postman, Neil. (1994). The Disappearance of Childhood. Vintage/Random House.
Reagan, Timothy. (2000). Non-Western educational traditions: alternative approaches to educational thought and practice. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
* Schmidt, Jeff. (2001). Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System that Shapes Their Lives. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Verdolin, Jennifer L. (2017). Raised by Animals: The Surprising New Science of Animal Family Dynamics. The Experiment Publishing.
Wells, Nancy and Kristi Lekies. (2006). "Nature and the Life Course: Pathways from Childhood Nature Experiences to Adult Environmentalism". Retrieved from http://www.outdoorfoundation.org/pdf/NatureAndTheLifeCourse.pdf
White, Randy. (2004). “Young Children's Relationship with Nature: Its Importance to Children's Development and the Earth's Future”. Children and Nature Network. Retrieved from http://www.childrenandnature.org/uploads/White_YoungChildren.pdf
Whitebread, David. (2012). "The Importance of Play". Retrieved from http://www.importanceofplay.eu/IMG/pdf/dr_david_whitebread_-_the_importance_of_play.pdf
Wilson, D.S., Lieberman, J., Berch, D.B., Biglan, A., Bjorkland, D.F., Ellis, B.J., & Gray, P. (2015). "Learning from Mother Nature About Teaching Our Children: Ten Simple Truths About Childhood Education from an Evolutionary Perspective". Retrieved from https://evolution-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ten-Truths-Revision.pdf
* = must read
AbdelRahim, Layla. (2014). Wild Children - Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education. Fernwood Publishing.
* Black, Carol. (2016). “On the Wildness of Children”. Carol Black. Retrieved from http://carolblack.org/on-the-wildness-of-children/
Bowers, C.A. (2001). Educating for Eco-Justice and Community. University of Georgia Press.
* Bowers, C.A. (1992). Education, Cultural Myths, and the Ecological Crisis: Toward Deep Changes. State University of New York Press.
Bowers, C.A. (2005). The False Promises of Constructivist Theories of Learning: A Global and Ecological Critique. Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
Bowers, C.A. (2000). “Four Double Binds that Limit the Development of an Eco-Justice Pedagogy.” Retrieved from http://www.cabowers.net/pdf/Four%20Double%20Binds.pdf
Bowers, C.A. (2000). Let Them Eat Data: How Computers Affect Education, Cultural Diversity, and the Prospects of Ecological Sustainability. University of Georgia Press.
Bowles, Samuel and Herbert Gintis. (1977). Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reforms and the Contradictions of Economic Life. Basic Books.
Burghardt, Gordon M. (2014). “A Brief Glimpse at the Long Evolutionary History of Play”. Retrieved from http://abc.sciknow.org/archive_files/201402/20140201_Burghart.pdf
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, Alliance for Childhood, & Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment (2012). “Facing the Screen Dilemma: Young Children, Technology and Early Education.” Retrieved from http://www.commercialfreechildhood.org/sites/default/files/facingthescreendilemma.pdf
Chawla, Louise. (2009). "Growing Up Green: Becoming an Agent of Care for the Natural World". Retrieved from http://www.peecworks.org/peec/peec_reports/01795CA8-001D0211.34/jdpchawla.pdf
Chawla, Louise. (2012). "The Importance of Access to the Nature for Young Children". Retrieved from http://earlychildhoodmagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ECM118_11_The-importance-of-access-to-nature_Louise-Chawla.pdf
* Chawla, Louise. (2006). “Learning To Love the Natural World Enough to Protect It”. Retrieved from https://www.ntnu.no/documents/10458/19133135/Chawla1.pdf
Churchill, Ward. (2004). Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The Genocidal Impact of American Indian Residential Schools. City Lights Publishers.
Cobb, Edith. (1959). The Ecology of Imagination in Childhood. Daedalus 88/3. MIT Press.
Davis, John. (2004). “Psychological Benefits of Nature Experiences: An Outline of Research and Theory. Soucraft. Retrieved from http://www.soulcraft.co/essays/psychological_benefits_of_nature_experiences.pdf
Department of Conservation. (2011). “Benefits of Connecting Children With Nature”. Retrieved from http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/getting-involved/students-and-teachers/benefits-of-connecting-children-with-nature.pdf
* Gatto, John Taylor. (2002). Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. New Society Publishers.
* Gatto, John Taylor. (2010). Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling. New Society Publishers.
Gray, Peter. (2008). "A Brief History of Education". Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200808/brief-history-education
* Gray, Peter. (2011). "The Decline of Play and the Rise of Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents". Retrieved from http://www.journalofplay.org/sites/www.journalofplay.org/files/pdf-articles/3-4-article-gray-decline-of-play.pdf
Gray, Peter. (2008). "The Educative Functions of Free Play and Exploration". Retrieved from http://evolution.binghamton.edu/evos/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/Gray03.pdf
* Gray, Peter. (2013). Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Resilient, and Better Students for Life. Basic Books.
Gray, Peter. (2009). “The Headman was a Woman: For Batek, Nuturance = Leadership”. Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/200905/the-headman-was-woman-batek-nurturance-leadership
Gray, Peter. (2015). “How Early Academic Training Retards Intellectual Development”. Psychology Today. Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201506/how-early-academic-training-retards-intellectual-development
Gray, Peter. (2009). "Play as a Foundation for Hunter-Gatherer Social Existence". Retrieved from https://www.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/attachments/1195/play-h-g-social-existence-ajp.pdf
* Gray, Peter. (2013). “The Play Deficit”. Retrieved from https://www.sd43.bc.ca/elementary/hamptonpark/Announcements/Attachments/160/The%20play%20deficit%20Peter%20Gray.pdf
Gray, Peter. (2011). “The Special Value of Children's Age-Mixed Play”. Retrieved from
https://www.psychologytoday.com/sites/default/files/attachments/1195/ajp-age-mixing-published.pdf
Hathaway, Warren, Hargreaves, J., Thompson, G., and D. Novitsky. (1992). “A Study into the Effects of Light on Children of Elementary School Age – A Case of Daylight Robbery”. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED343686.pdf
Holt, John. (1972). Freedom and Beyond. Dutton.
Illich, Ivan. (2000). Deschooling Society. Mario Boyars Publishers.
Kohn, Alfie. (2011). “Five Not-So-Obvious Propositions About Play”. Retrieved from http://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/play/?print=pdf
Kohn, Alfie. (1992). No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Houghton Mifflin.
Kohn, Alfie. (2011). Feel-Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling. Beacon Press.
* Kohn, Alfie. (2005). Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason. Atria Books.
Lamb, Michael and Barry Hewlett. (2005). Hunter-Gatherer Childhoods: Evolutionary, Developmental, and Cultural Perspectives. Aldine Transaction.
Liedloff, Jean. (1986). The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost. Da Capo Press.
Louv, Richard. (2008). Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder. Algonquin Books.
Munoz, Dr. Sarah Anne. (2009). "Children in the Outdoors: A Literature Review". Sustainable Development Research Centre. Retrieved from http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/images/Children%20in%20the%20outdoors%20literature%20review_tcm4-597028.pdf
* Mwanzia, Jessica. (2013). So, What’s Wrong With School? 125 Reasons Not to Send Your Kids. Lulu Publishing.
* Narvaez, Darcia. (2012). "The 99%: Development and Socialization Within an Evolutionary Context: Growing Up to Become 'A Good and Useful Human Being'". Retrieved from http://www3.nd.edu/%7Ednarvaez/documents/Narvaez99percent2012FINAL.pdf
Narvaez, Darcia, Peter Gray, James J. McKenna, Agustin Fuentes and Kristin Valentino. "Children's Development in Light of Evolution and Culture". Retrieved from http://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/mrossano/grad_cog/ancestral%20landscapes/chapter%201.pdf
Penetito, Wally. (2011). What's Maori About Maori Education? Victoria University Press.
Postman, Neil. (1994). The Disappearance of Childhood. Vintage/Random House.
Reagan, Timothy. (2000). Non-Western educational traditions: alternative approaches to educational thought and practice. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
* Schmidt, Jeff. (2001). Disciplined Minds: A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System that Shapes Their Lives. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Verdolin, Jennifer L. (2017). Raised by Animals: The Surprising New Science of Animal Family Dynamics. The Experiment Publishing.
Wells, Nancy and Kristi Lekies. (2006). "Nature and the Life Course: Pathways from Childhood Nature Experiences to Adult Environmentalism". Retrieved from http://www.outdoorfoundation.org/pdf/NatureAndTheLifeCourse.pdf
White, Randy. (2004). “Young Children's Relationship with Nature: Its Importance to Children's Development and the Earth's Future”. Children and Nature Network. Retrieved from http://www.childrenandnature.org/uploads/White_YoungChildren.pdf
Whitebread, David. (2012). "The Importance of Play". Retrieved from http://www.importanceofplay.eu/IMG/pdf/dr_david_whitebread_-_the_importance_of_play.pdf
Wilson, D.S., Lieberman, J., Berch, D.B., Biglan, A., Bjorkland, D.F., Ellis, B.J., & Gray, P. (2015). "Learning from Mother Nature About Teaching Our Children: Ten Simple Truths About Childhood Education from an Evolutionary Perspective". Retrieved from https://evolution-institute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Ten-Truths-Revision.pdf