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There is an excellent list of books available to download from http://www.vidyaonline.net/bookshelf/thought.asp. Among those available are:

Summerhill – A Radical Approach To Child Rearing: A. S. Neill

Some Thoughts Concerning Education: John Locke (Although Locke has eighteenth century views on health and the domination of the passions, he also has some surprisingly progressive thoughts, expressed with beautiful clarity, for example, "Few years require few rules.")

The Lives Of Children - The Story of the First Street School: George Dennison

King of Children - Biography of Janusz Korczak: Betty Jean Liffton

The Idiot Teacher - A Book about Prestolee School and its Headmaster E. F. O'Neill: Gerard Holmes

A Treatise On Parents And Children: George Bernard Shaw

The Montessori Method: Scientific Pedagogy As Applied To Child Education in the "Children's Houses": Maria Montessori

Democracy and Education: An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Education: John Dewey

The Education of the Child: Ellen Key (Ellen Key was Swedish, and wrote at the turn of the last century. She deserves to be much better known in this country.)

Deschooling Society: Ivan Illich Totto-Chan -

The Little Girl at the Window: Tetsuko Kuroyanagi; Translated by Dorothy Britton (The little girl at the window went to a progressive school in Japan in the 1930s.)

Letter to a Teacher: The School of Barbiana; Translated by Nora Rossi and Tom Cole (The School of Barbiana was run by a parish priest in a small village in the mountains near Florence. This is a tribute from eight of his pupils.)

A book available on its own from a different source is David Gribble's Children Don't Start Wars, a consideration of children's ethical views. There are several different formats of a rather badly scanned version at http://www.groups.yahoo.group/children-dont-start-wars/files

 

 

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