To say "John Holt is a good starting point" (probably my own phrase on previous occasions) is a bit of a misnomer because, as others have pointed out recently, and rightly, he wrote Why Children Fail and How Children Learn in the 1960s, and a lot has changed since then.
More recently, however, a collection of his writings together with PAtrick Ferenga was issued under the title "Teach Your Own" (2003, not to be confused with Holt's 1981 book of the same title)
Other places HEers of the unschooling/ autonomous route would be likely to go are
Sandra Dodd's writings on unschooling
Mike Fortune Wood's writings about HE on he HE-UK website and in his paper journal (quarterly)
Jan Fortune Wood's Doing it Their Way
Terri Dowty Free Range Education
School is not compulsory (an education otherwise publication, lots of contributors)
John Taylor Gatto (though I've not read any myself)
I hope this list will be useful for some people, and also answer the accusation of "but you're basing it on 50 year old research!" which a glib "John Holt is a good starting point" invites
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emmaagain · 17/01/2008 23:31
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