The following is a list of evidence based research and does not include opinion pieces, facts only (other than the testimonials).
Hole-in-the-Wall Project (7:30-17:40 most relevant)
The Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Education
Self-Determination Theory and Education
- The Role of Parents in Facilitating Autonomous Self-Regulation For Education
- Undermining Quality Teaching and Learning- A Perspective on High Stakes Testing
Kids Can Add and Subtract Without Arithmetic
Home Schooling: From the Extreme to the Mainstream
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations
Listening to Experts Inhibits Decision Making in the Brain
Education Revolution Research Compilation
Home Education Research in the UK and North America
Peter Gray, research professor of psychology at Boston College, writes a column for Psychology Today called Freedom To Learn. Some of his evidence based posts include:
- Children Educate Themselves 1-Outline of Some of the Evidence
- Children Educate Themselves 2-We All Know That’s True for Little Kids
- Children Educate Themselves 3-The Wisdom of Hunter-Gatherers
- Children Educate Themselves 4-Lessons From Sudbury Valley
- Children Teach Themselves to Read
Those Unschooled Minds: Home-educated Children Grow Up
The 3 R’s? A Fourth is Crucial, Too: Recess
Why Preschool Shouldn’t Be Like School
National Home Education Research Institute
‘Late’ Readers Close the Learning Gap
Development of Neural Mechanisms for Reading
How 3 Unschoolers Learned to Read
Parental Patience and Children’s Reading: A Pilot Study of Homeschooled Children
Research Finds No Advantage In Learning To Read From Age Five
Great resources. Thanks for the list. You might want to add The Journal of Unschooling and Alternative Learning.
http://www.nipissingu.ca/jual/Archives/archive.asp
Also, John Holt books and Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society which are classics.