Subject: Education Last modified: March 1, 2004
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Albert, David H
And the Skylark Sings with me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community Based Education
NSP 240pp ISBN: 0-86571-401-0 $19.95
Gracefully written, And the Skylark Sings with Me passionately illustrates that real learning is much richer and more mysterious than any school can encompass.

Carlsson-Paige & Levin
Who's Calling the Shots? How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination with War Play, War Toys & Violent TV
NSP 204pp ISBN: 0-86571-165-8 $17.95
Who's Calling the Shots offers a wealth of developmentally appropriate suggestions, practical ideas and resources for helping children reclaim imaginative play, avoid rigid gender and racial stereotypes, resist consumerism, and develop skills for playing and living less violently. Who's Calling the Shots? also explains the increasingly influential collaboration between toy makers and cartoon producers, who are actively blurring the lines between "entertainment" and promotion, and so creating both tremendous consumer pressure on parents through children, and less imaginative play among children.

Children's Creative Response to Conflict Program
The Friendly Classroom for a Small Planet: A Handbook on Creative Approaches to Living & Problem Solving for Children
NSP 134pp ISBN: 0-86571-129-1 $18.95
Large Format. "Includes hundreds of exercises, activities, methods, and tips designed to nurture self-esteem, build cooperation and community, develop effective communication (including listening, observing, and speaking skills), promote both self-awareness and empathy and train effective conflict resolution skills (like negotiation and role playing)." Highly useful source book for any parent, teacher or adult leader.

Duane, Michael
The Terrace: an Educational Experiment in a State School
Freedom 76pp ISBN: 0-900384-78-6 $8.80
An examination of education methods in an experimental state school in South Yorkshire.

Fitzell, Susan Gingras
Free the Children! Conflict Education for Strong, Peaceful Minds
NSP 208pp ISBN: 0-86571-361-8 $18.95
Today more than ever, progressive educators and parents are looking for professional and practical guidance to help them raise peaceful children. Free the Children! offers a unique approach to helping ourselves and our children break free from negative cultural and media conditioning that creates aggression and conflict.'

Gatto, John Taylor
Dumbing us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
NSP 128pp ISBN: 0-86571-231-X $14.95
Dumbing Us Down offers a radical critique of public schooling which stamps out the self-knowledge, curiosity, concentration and self-teaching skills which are the hallmarks of true education. Instead of training for robots, John Gatto suggests a guerilla curriculum of daily involvement in our communities, in all their gritty and wonderful reality.

Hammond and Collins
One World, One Earth: Educating Children for Social Responsibility
NSP 160pp ISBN: 0-86571-247-6 $17.95
One World, One Earth is an excellent handbook for adults who want to work with children to explore peace, environmental and social justice issues. It features sensitive discussions about how to co-learn and co-lead with young people, and detailed suggestions for organizing a group within existing institutions (schools, scout troops, churches), creating a cooperative learning environment, involving the wider community, and sustaining enthusiasm. Always practical, One World, One Earth is full of activities, examples, sample hand-outs and useful resources.

Hern, Matt (ed)
Deschooling Our Lives
NSP 160pp ISBN: 0-86571-342-1 $17.95
Deschooling Our Lives is a provocative, practical response to the crisis in our schools. It argues boldly for replacing compulsory schooling with a wide variety of home, neighborhood and community-based educational efforts. Deschooling Our Lives details the destructive effects of mass schooling on the lives of our children and communities. But Deschooling Our Lives moves beyond criticism to explore a variety of working examples of community- and family-based education, including home schooling, community learning networks, democratic and free schools, and more.

Hill, Linda
Connecting Kids: Exploring Diversity Together
NSP 192pp ISBN: 0-86571-431-2 $25.95
This book helps children explore and celebrate differences, building acceptance and an inclusive culture that prevents and reduces prejudice and discrimination. Focusing on 20 key skills, it includes over 200 fun games and activities that teach social connecting behaviours.

Hopkins, Susan & Winters, Jeffrey (eds)
Discover the World: Empowering Children to Value Themselves, Others and the Earth
NSP 160pp ISBN: 0-86571-192-5 $17.95
A book of activities for children between the ages of 3 and 12 years designed to encourage understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity and respect for the earth.

Kivel, Paul
Boys will be Men: Raising our Sons for Courage, Caring, and Community
NSP 256pp ISBN: 0-86571-395-2 $19.95
Boys will Be Men is for all parents who have a vision of a society where peace and justice exist; for parents raising their sons in economically disadvantaged communities; for feminists who feel confused about raising their sons, and for parents of color who need to add their sons' strength to their communities.

Levin, Diane E.
Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable Classroom
NSP 176pp ISBN: 0-86571-316-2 $24.95
'Teaching Young Children in Violent Times helps teachers and group leaders working with pre-K to 3rd-graders to create an environment in which young children can learn alternatives to the violent behaviors modeled in our society, the media and home. Mixing dialogs, anecdotes and theory, the book provides essential insights into the developmental roots of young children's thinking and behaviors around gender, prejudice, violence and conflict. It offers practical guidelines and activities for meeting young children's needs for safety; helping young children learn to appreciate diversity; and providing opportunities and skills to resolve conflicts creatively and respectfully. Published by Educators for Social Responsibility.'

Macbeth, Fiona & Fine, Nic
Playing With Fire: Creative Conflict Resolution for Young Adults
NSP 192pp ISBN: 0-86571-306-5 $24.95
Drawing from the experience of successful programs in the US, Canada and the UK, (this book) presents a training program that helps young adults explore situations of conflict and interpersonal violence while learning and practicing skills and strategies for turning destructive conflicts into constructive dialogs. It is a supremely practical, ready-to-use guide and reference for teachers, counselors, group leaders, and others dedicated to helping young adults learn democratic processes.'

Sambhava & Luvmour, Josette
Everyone Wins! Cooperative Games and Activities
NSP 128pp ISBN: 0-86571-190-9 $10.95
150 cooperative games, fully indexed for activity level, age level, group size, and location. A useful resource for educators, group leaders and facilitators, and for those who enjoy some cooperative fun.

Spring, Joel
Primer Of Libertarian Education
Black Rose 159pp ISBN: 0-919618-61-8 $13.50
A reader of libertarian ideas and practice in education. Discusses the educational theories and practice of Karl Marx, Max Stirner, Leo Tolstoy, Francisco Ferrer, Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, Wilhelm Reich, A.S. Neill, Bruno Bettelheim, among many others.

Ward, Colin
Talking Schools: Ten lectures by Colin Ward
Freedom 141pp ISBN: 0-900384-81-6 $17.60
Ten lectures given in Britain and the United Staes on education and the learning environment.

Whitehouse & Pudney
A Volcano in My Tummy: Helping Children to Handle Anger
NSP 80pp ISBN: 0-86571-349-9 $15.95
Presents a clear and effective approach to helping children and adults alike understand and deal constructively with children's anger. Using easy to understand yet rarely taught skills for anger management, including how to teach communication of emotions, A Volcano in My Tummy offers engaging, well-organized activities which help to overcome the fear of children's anger which many adult care-givers experience. By carefully distinguishing between anger the feeling, and violence the behavior, this accessible little book, primarily created for ages 6 to thirteen, helps to create an awareness of anger, enabling children to relate creatively and harmoniously at critical stages in their development.

Wichert, Susanne
Keeping the Peace: Practicing Cooperation and Conflict Resolution with Preschoolers
NSP 112pp ISBN: 0-86571-158-5 $17.95
Large Format. A useful resource book for parents, teachers and care givers in creating an environment conducive for developing children's communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills. Includes practical activities.