Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- PART I: Whose Education Is It Anyway? -- 1. The Other Pandemic: Dependent Learners in the Age of Autonomy -- PART II: A Brief History of Self-Directed Learning: Looking Back to Move Forward: Tracing Self-Directed Learning Through Western Civilization -- 2. "All Men by Nature Desire to Know": Aristotle's First Premise, Natural Curiosity, and the Rise of the Sophists -- 3. Learning to Do, Learning to Learn: Apprenticeships and the Printing Press -- 4. Rousseau, Pestalozzi, and Froebel: Nature, Freedom, and Play -- 5. The Great Equalizer: Horace Mann, the Chautauqua Movement, and W.E.B. Du Bois -- 6. Dewey, Montessori, and Progressive Reformers -- 7. Education as Revolutionary: Summerhill, Sudbury, Free Schools, and Citizenship Schools -- 8. Illich and Holt: Deschooling, Homeschooling, and Unschooling -- 9. The Field of Self-Directed Learning -- PART III: Exploring Self-Directed Learning Environments -- 10. Ready to Learn: The Skills of Self-Directed Learning -- 11. Experience and Environment: The Role of School in Self-Directed Learning -- 12. Where's the Teacher?: Guides, Facilitators, and the Role of Adults in Self-Directed Learning -- 13. Equity, Freedom, and Responsibility -- 14. "Staying Competitive": Self-Directed Learning and Market Forces -- PART IV: Eudaimonia and Democratic Schooling -- 15. Learning as a Pursuit of Happiness: Education for Individual Flourishing -- 16. Learning to Live Together: Self-Directed Learning and Social Responsibility -- 17. Bringing It Together: Learning for the Self and the Other -- 18. Eudemonic Self-Directed Learning -- PART V: The Future of Education -- 19. A Summary of Arguments and Implications for Future Research -- Index.