Deschooling Our Lives

 

Field Day: Getting Society Out of School

 

Creating Learning Communities

 

Encounter Magazine

Other Works

 

Chris's essays, commentaries and reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers, journals and magazines, as well as in four anthologies: Challenging the Giant (Down to Earth Books, 1992), Deschooling Our Lives (New Society Press 1996), Creating Learning Communities (Foundation for Educational Renewal 2000), and Field Day: Getting Society Out of School (New Star Books 2003).

 

Currently Chris is a regular columnist for Encounter magazine. He has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio's “Ideas,” and other nationally syndicated radio shows.

 

Below you will find articles and essays written by Chris and organized alphabetically.  Articles and essays may be reprinted with permissionClick here to fill out a request.

 
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Aging Happens

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Bent Trees

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Compulsory Volunteerism

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The Dragon at the Top of the Stairs

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Educating Children in a World of Violence

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Fixing a Desk, Mending a Mind

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In Memoriam

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Learning and Serving

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Lions and Tigers and Beggers, Oh No!

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My Five Sons

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No Child Left Behind?

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Pass the Elmer's, Please

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The Play in Plato

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Race & Choice

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Relational Learning — Say What?

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School as Community/Community as School

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The Self-Organizing Child

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September 12th

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Shiny New Quarter

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Time Traveling

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Twenty-First Century Education: Missing the Harbor Too

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What I Teach to Three-Year-Olds

 

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