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Articles by Carol Black
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
On the Wildness of Children: The Revolution Will Not Take Place In The Classroom
Carol Black · “In Wildness is the preservation of the World.” Thoreau says it in “Walking,” and Jack Turner, in his exquisite collection of essays, The Abstract Wild,  questions how many of us have any idea what it means.   P
This 2-Part Primer Will Help You Think Like an Unschooler
This 2-Part Primer Will Help You Think Like an Unschooler
Carol Black & Neal Marlens · Many of us have difficulty explaining the concept of unschooling, life learning, or self-directed learning to those who are unfamiliar with it.  In an attempt to help unschoolers communicate their way of looking at things to the wider...
The Future of Big-Box Schooling
The Future of Big-Box Schooling
Carol Black · “I think the way western education has grown over the last few centuries, especially with the rise of industrialization, was basically not to create human beings fully equipped to deal with life and all its problems, independent...
A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning
A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning
Carol Black · The following statement somehow showed up on my Twitter feed the other day:
Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense
Occupy Your Mind: On Power, Knowledge, and the Re-Occupation of Common Sense
Carol Black · One of the most profound changes that occurs when modern schooling is introduced into traditional societies around the world is a radical shift in the locus of power and control over learning from children, families, and communities to...