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Tim Finnegan
13th November 2011, 00:22
Looking for a birthday present for my sister, and seeing as she's a teacher-in-training and an anarchist, it seemed like a book on anarchism and education might be a good idea. Any of the good folks of RevLeft have any suggestions?

Susurrus
13th November 2011, 00:58
Pedagogy Of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere I hear is pretty good, though it's more marxist than anarchist.
The Origins and Ideals of the Modern School is by Ferrer, who basically started the anarchist schooling movement.

the Left™
13th November 2011, 01:04
Not sure if its anarchist but its a critique of schooling as it pertains to the modern economic system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society

x359594
13th November 2011, 07:11
Compulsory Mis-Education and The Community of Scholars (combined in one volume) by Paul Goodman.

Summerhill by A.S. Neil

A Primer of Libertarian Education by Joel Spring (libertarian in Bakunin's sense of the word, not the modern rightist meaning)

Anything by Jonathan Kozol