Assignments

This page contains discussion questions associated with many of the readings, to guide in-class discussion.

SES # QUESTIONS
1

Introduction (PDF)

Holt, How Children Fail (PDF)

2

Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (PDF)

Valley, "An Option for Intellectual Autonomy" (PDF)

Giannini, "Nurturing Talent and Creativity in the Arts" (PDF)

3 Kirschenbaum, Wad-ja-get? (PDF)
4

Naylor, "Antioch: Vision and Revision" (PDF)

Nkabinde, "Evergreen: Ever Green?" (PDF)

5 Lave, Situated Learning (PDF)
6

Mattuck, The Torch or the Firehose (PDF)

Schoenfeld, Mathematical Problem Solving (PDF)

7

Olin College Prospectus (PDF)

Lake, "Integrated Curriculum" (PDF)

Gamson, Liberating Education (PDF)

Buzan, Use Both Sides of Your Brain (PDF)

8 Valley, My Years in the M.I.T. Experimental Study Group (PDF)
9

Neill, Summerhill (PDF)

Hern, Deschooling Our Lives (PDF)

10 Newell, "Deep Springs: Loyalty to a Fault?" (PDF)
11 Adams, "Prescott: from Parson to Parsimony" (PDF)
14 Rimmer, The Harrad Experiment (PDF)