On the Horizon: Volume 32 Issue 2/3

Guest editorial: Reimagined ways of knowing, being and doing: understanding the value of a self-directed educational context

Christel Hartkamp-Bakker, Melissa Riley Bradford

Editorial: What is self-directed education and why is now the time for it to take wings?

Peter Gray

Children’s rights and agency: promoting participative capabilities through self-directed education

Tony DeCesare

The purpose of this paper is to connect emerging conceptions of childhood in the capabilities approach (CA) literature to models of self-directed education in hopes of…

Resisting and disrupting neoliberal subjectivity in self-directed education: what can we learn from black homeschoolers

Renee Tougas

From the in-group status as a former homeschool parent, the goal is to problematize the entanglement of neoliberalism within self-directed education (SDE) pedagogies. Further and…

Our mission is uplift: Afrofuturism and collective work for liberation in Black homeschooling organizations

Thomas Noel, Joseph Gardner, Ariel Sylvester

This study aims to explore how Black homeschooling organizations based in the United States with a public web presence in 2023–2024 characterize their missions and what these…

Deschooling teachers: a pathway to self-directed education

Cammie Justus-Smith

The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of former teachers who transitioned into self-directed education (SDE), a K-12 educational paradigm where learning is…

Student voice and participatory self-governance at a German democratic free school: a content analysis

Kristan Accles Morrison

This paper aims to illustrate, by means of a content analysis of 278 weekly School Meeting minutes, the ways in which student voice is actualized in one democratic free school in…

True choice and taking ownership of life: a qualitative study into self-determination in Sudbury model schools

Christel Hartkamp-Bakker, Rob Martens

This study aims to present the experiences with self-determination and taking ownership of life in Sudbury model schools that allow students true choice.

Schoolishness: Alienated Education and the Quest for Authentic, Joyful Learning

Melissa Riley Bradford