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Independent Scholars, Writers, Self-Education
Autodidacticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Category:Autodidacts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
National Coalition of Independent Scholars
US umbrella organization for independent scholars, includes extensive resources
for writers
The International Cultural Research Network
Dan Poynter - Para Publishing
Publications offer advice for aspiring writers
Autodidactic Press
Publications and information on lifelong learning, autodidaxy, credentialing
Autodidact.net: Your Free Learning Portal
How to Give Yourself a Good Education if You are an Intelligent Poor Person by sbe1
Self Made Scholar (Learn Free)
Technophilia: Get a free college education online (lifehacker)
Free Online Education (links by course category)
The informal education homepage
Includes the encyclopedia of
informal education,
the informal education archives,
& other resources
Self-Directed Learning
Web Page
Explore this site, including Roger
Hiemstra's Web Page (Self-Directed Adult Education)
The Independent Learner and Self-Direction (Louis Dineen, Evelyn Greenlaw, Anne Piroso, and Linda Saunders)
Creating Learning Communities: Online Resource Center
The Autodidact Society for the Self
Taught
Beware home schooling, but note other resources
The Autodidact's Journal (defunct)
Study Circles, History, Resources for Education
Study Circles Resource Center
Helping communities organize study circles to encourage democratic participation
in acting on the issues of the day
Something Has Gone Very Wrong: James Louwen's Lies My Teacher Told Me
Disciplined Minds Web Site
Jeff Schmidt:
"A Critical Look at Salaried Professionals and the Soul-Battering System
That Shapes Their Lives"
AXE - Special Collections - E. Haldeman-Julius (Leonard H. Axe Library, Pittsburg State University, Kansas) Note links.
The Bill French Center
An information center for the documentation of bookseller Bill French and the
University Place Bookshop, sponsored by The C.L.R. James Institute
Cultural Logic. Special Issue: Marxism and Education (vol. 4, no. 1, 2001)
History of Literacy web site
Critical Thinking
Critical Thinking On The Web (Tim van Gelder)
Foundation for Critical Thinking
Butterflies and Wheels: Fighting Fashionable Nonsense
Alan Sokal Archive of the "Social Text Affair"
How to Think and Evaluate Information: A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking by Greg R. Haskins (2006)
Philosophy
(See also Washington Philosophy Circle links page
for broader range of links)
The Value of
Knowledge: A Miniature Library of Philosophy
Andy Blunden's unique guide to the development of modern philosophy and its
relation to society and the sciences
Dictionary of the
History of Ideas
An important reference source, now online
Encyclopedia of Self-Knowledge
Thematically organized, includes famed writers and philosophers of western civilization
Society for Philosophical Inquiry
Philosophy for the masses, featuring Socrates Cafes and Philosophers Clubs
Bernard Roy & Café Philo
Philosophy for the Masses, a growing international movement
Philos Philosophy Cafes: in brief
The Café Philo movement, in English
Philos: Cafés Philo
The French Cafés Philo movement, in French, with links to Cafés
Philo in various countries
Philosophy Now: A Magazine of Ideas
Philosophy for the masses, with calendars of events internationally
TPM Online: The Philosophers'
Magazine on the Net
Philosophy for the masses, also from the UK, with articles, events, discussions,
links
Hermenaut: independent philosophical zine
Philosophy for AllPhilosophical Humor site (David Chalmers)
Les philosophes n'ont fait qu'interprčter le monde... [in French]
Unusual Scholarship
Maledicta: The International Journal of Verbal Aggression
Quotations
Black Freethinkers & Other Intellectuals
African Americans for Humanism
The world's first organization for African-American freethinkers and secular
humanists and their supporters
The Richard Wright Connection (The C.L.R. James Institute)
Richard Wright--Richard Hancuff's PageThe Hubert Harrison
Center
The C.L.R. James Institute presents an information center for publications
and activities relating to West Indian-American "father of Harlem radicalism"
Hubert Henry Harrison: autodidact, soapbox orator, militant atheist, literary
critic, political organizer, also termed the "Black Socrates".
Lucy Parsons, black American anarchist. See entry in Freethinkers in Texas (Word file), which mentions atheism. See also biography on the IWW site.
Anthony Braxton and the Tri-Centric Foundation
Book Hunting
Book Finder
Meta-search engine for book hunters, great for used and rare books
Alternative Press & Librarianship
New Pages
"News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers,
literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative
newsweeklies and more."
Sanford
Berman Website
Former Head Cataloger for the Hennepin County Library (HCL) system, Minnesota;
pioneer of alternative cataloging progressive librarianship
Sources on Topics Covered on this Site
Esperanto.Net
Introduction and guide to the world of Esperanto, the "international language",
also a favorite of autodidacts since 1887
The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking for Yourself
Samuel R. Delaney as a semi-precious stone
Papers of Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) (MS 7168, National Library of Australia)
Marxist Educational Press / Nature, Society, and Thought
"Groto", a philosophical tale, in the Esperanto original
Ateismo: Bulteno de Ateista Tutmonda Esperanto-Organizo
Other Site Work by Ralph Dumain
Esperanto section (not yet operational), the Marxists Internet Archive
Esperanto section, Reform-Islam: Bonvenon
al Reform-Islamo
(but see other people's translations at Novajxoj
Maldekstraj Sxuaj)
E-mail/Internet Discussion Groups
Marxist Philosophy Yahoo Discussion List
Writings by Ralph Dumain on Other Sites
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Ĝirafo (on Blogger) Esperanto-blogo
See my book reviews on amazon.com (beginning 19 August 2005).
"Review of David Punter, The Romantic Unconscious: A Study in Narcissism and Patriarchy", H-Albion, H-Net Reviews, July, 1994.
"Retorts"
[letter to the editor], The Alembic, no. 2, Summer 1989, p. 8.
(An embarrassing sample of my pre-1992 writing)
Sabira Ståhlberg, Durankulak: recenzo [in Esperanto. Also on this site: Review (Recenzo): Sabira Ståhlberg, Durankulak]
Hegelian Marxism discussion, Ralph Dumain et al, on Hegel-by-Hypertext.
The C.L.R. James Institute--A New Model of Scholarship in the Social Division of Labor, 17 Jan. 1997.
An Introduction to Jeff Perry, 30 May 2001.
On C.L.R. James's 'On the Spiritual', 1994.
Mariners, Renegades, And Castaways: The Acid Test by Ralph Dumain. 31 August 1993, ed. 6 June 2001.
C.L.R. James, Intellectuals, Non-Identity, & the Division of Labor by Ralph Dumain. 20 April 1997.
Ralph Dumain's Farewell Message to Jim Murray. 21 August 2003.
Jim Murray Memorial Address. Written 7 November 2003, delivered 8 November 2003.
Live Interview with Ralph Dumain on "Living Room" (on C.L.R. James, 21 January 2004, with sound file)
Ralph Dumain interviewed by Jim Pray, Buffalo, NY, 4 June 2006 (topics: this web site, poetry)
“Secularism, science and the Right.” 02-15 December 2006.
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