Positions
Education
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- English Studies
- Philosophy
- Psychology
- Education Consecutive
Graduate Studies
- Education, MEd/PHD Program
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
Research
Research Interests
- Unschooling; Homeschooling
- Holistic Education
- Self-determined Learning
- Free Schools
- Democratic Schools
- Online Learning
- Technology and Learning
- Play; Natural Learning
- Curiosity
- Willed Learning
- the Willed Curriculum
- Critical Pedagogy
- AI
- Healthy Living.
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
Books
Ricci, C., Ricci, A., & Ricci, K. (Eds.). (2027). Using Human Intelligence to Learn Safely with AI and Technology. Ricci Publishing. Ricci, C., & Riley, G. (Eds.). (2025). The ungraded classroom: Feedback, reflection, and authentic learning.
Ricci Publishing. Farenga, P. & Ricci, C. (Series Eds.). (2023). Growing without schooling Volume 5 Issues 41-50:
John Holt, Editor and Founder. HoltGWS LLC. Ricci, C. & Riley, G. (Eds.). (2023). Joys of self-determined learning: A collection of essays.
Ricci Publishing.Ricci, C. (2012). The willed curriculum, unschooling, and self-direction: What do love, trust, respect, care, and compassion have to do with learning? Toronto, Ontario: Ricci Publishing.
Ricci, C. & Mintz, J. (Eds.). (2010). Turning points: 35 Educational visionaries in education tell their own stories. USA: AERO. (note: this is an expanded version of the book below)
Articles
Ricci, C. (in press). Good teaching in the era of AI and digital learning. In P. P. Trifonas (Ed.), International handbook of theory and research in digital media and education. Springer.
Ricci, C. (in press). The messiness and meaning of friendship: A philosophical, educational, and personal journey. In T. Wideman-Johnston (Ed.), Critical friendship: Narratives from the field of education. CF Press.
Ricci. C. (2024). Then and Now: The History of Mainstream Schooling Has Always Been Harmful and About. In P. Trifonas (Ed.) International Handbooks of Education. Handbook of Curriculum Theory and Research (pp. 691-709). Springer.
Ricci. C. (2020). Foreword. In T. W. Johnson, The Extraordinary Gifts: My Life with a Chronic Illness (pp. 6-9). Toronto, Ontario: Amazon.
Ricci. C. (2020). Schooling, Home. In Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition.