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A Study into the Effects of Light on Children of Elementary School-Age – A Case of Daylight Robbery, Warren E Hathaway et al. Alberta Department of Education, 1992. 

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ADDITIONAL SOURCES

Books and articles not used in the writing of this essay but which deal with similar themes.

Unschooling Science: Slow Learning, Nature, and Life, Wendy Priesnitz, Life Learning Magazine

We Don't Need No Education Ben Hewitt, Outside Online, August 12, 2014.

Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education, Layla AbdelRahim, Fernwood Publishing, April 2013.

This Revolution Will Not Be Schooled: How We Are Collectively Improvising a 'New Story' About Learning, Bayo Akomolafe and Manish Jain, TheRules.org, March 11, 2016

The Parrot's Training, A retelling by Manish Jain of a story by Rabindranath Tagore. Illustrated by Atreyee Dey. Banyan Tree Books, Indore, copyleft 2016.

 

 

 

 

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