Open Education Bibliography

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• Alexander, R. (2010). Children, their World, their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review. Routledge. [Read/Download summary report]
• Apple, Michael (1979). Ideology and Curriculum.
• Arons, Stephen (1976). Compelling Belief: The Culture of American Schooling.
• Broudy, Harry (1964). Building a Philosophy of Education.
• Bruner, Jerome (1966). Toward a Theory of Instruction.
• Caldwell Holt, John (1972). Freedom and Beyond.
• Coleman, James (1966). Equality of Educational Opportunity.
• Dennison, George (1969). The Lives of Children.
• Dore, Ronald (1976). The Diploma Disease: Education, Qualification, and Development.
• Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Bloomsbury Academic.
• Friedenberg, Edgar (1963). The Vanishing Adolescent.
• Friedenberg, Edgar (1969). Coming of Age in America: Growth and Acquiescence.
• Garber, Marion and Berlak, Harold (1970). Teaching about Learning.
• Goodman, Paul (1964). Compulsory Miseducation.
• Graubard, Allen (1968). Free the Children: Radical Reform and the Free School Movement.
• Greene, Maxine (1978). Landscapes of Learning.
• Gross, Ronald (1972) Open Education: A Beginning.
• Hassett, J. and Weisberg, P. (1970s) Open Education.
• Havighurst, Robert (1972) The Nature of Childhood and the Nature of Man.
• Herndon, James (1969) The Way It Spozed to Be.
• Holt, J. (1964) How Children Fail. Pitman Publishing. [PDF at Internet Archive]
• Holt, John (1967). How Children Learn.
• Illich, Ivan (1971). Deschooling Society.
• Jackson, Philip (1968) Life in Classrooms.
• Jacobs, Francine and Gross, Ronald (1972). The Children’s Rights Movement: Overcoming the Oppression of Young People.
• Kohl, Herbert (1967) 36 Children.
• Horton, M., Kohl, J., & Kohl, H. (1990) The long haul (Vol. 84). New York: Doubleday.
• Kohl, H. (1969) The Open Classroom: A Practical Guide to a New Way of Teaching. New York Review Books. [link to PDF]
• Kozol, Jonathan (1967). Death at an Early Age.
• Kozol, Jonathan (1975). The Night is Dawn, I am Far from Home.
• Malaguzzi, Loris (1970s). Various writings on the Reggio Emilia approach.
• Meighan, Roland (1977). A Sociology of Educating.
• Neill, A.S. (1960) Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing.
• Neill, A.S. (1962) Freedom, Not License!
• Neill, A.S. (1969) Summerhill for and Against.
• Norris, M. A. (1975) Continuity and Connection: Curriculum in Five Open Classrooms. ERIC. [article]
• Passow, A. H. (1971) Reactions to Silberman’s Crisis in the Classroom: With a Response, by Charles E. Silberman. CA Jones Publishing Company.
• Peddiwell, Abner (1959) The Saber-Tooth Curriculum.
• Peters, R. S. (1966) Ethics and Education. Allen & Unwin. [Borrow/Read at Internet Archive]
• Postman, N., & Weingartner, C. (1969) Teaching as a Subversive Activity. Delacorte Press. [Link to PDF]
• Postman, Neil (1976). Teaching as a Conserving Activity.
• Rathbone, Charles (1970s). Open education: the informal classroom.
• Raywid, Mary Ann (1974) The Nontraditional Learner.
• Reimer, Everett (1971) School is Dead.
• Rogers, Carl (1969) Freedom to Learn: A View of What Education Might Become.
• Schoolboys of Barbiana (1969) Letter to a Teacher.
• Schneir, W., & Schneir, M. (1971) The Joy of Learning – In the Open Corridor. New York Times Magazine. [article]
• Silberman, Charles (1970) Crisis in the Classroom: The Remaking of American Education. Random House. [Read/Borrow from Internet Archive]
• Silberman, Charles (Ed.) (1973) The Open Classroom Reader. Vintage Books.
• Sizer, Theodore (1964) Secondary Schools at the Turn of the Century.
• Spodek, Bernard Open Education – The Legacy of the Progressive Movement.
• Stephens, L. S. (1971) The Teacher’s Guide to Open Education. Prentice-Hall.
• Stenhouse, L. (1975) An Introduction to Curriculum Research and Development. Heinemann.
• Weber, Lillian (1975) The Pre-School and the Challenge of the Inner City.
• Weber, Lilian (1971) The English Infant School and Informal Education. Prentice-Hall.
• Weber, L., & Dennison, G. (1971) Open Corridor in the City School. Schocken Books.
• Williams, P. (1967) Education in Change: British Infant Schools and Infant Education. Routledge and Kegan Paul.
• Wexler, Philip (1976) Critical Social Psychology.

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Gary Stager

Veteran educator Gary Stager, Ph.D. is the author of Twenty Things to Do with a Computer – Forward 50, co-author of Invent To Learn — Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom, publisher at Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, and the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute. He led professional development in the world’s first 1:1 laptop schools thirty years ago and designed one of the oldest online graduate school programs. Gary is also the curator of The Seymour Papert archives at DailyPapert.com. Learn more about Gary here.