Pendidikan alternatif merangkumi banyakpendekatan pedagogi berbeza daripada pedagogi arus perdana. Persekitaran pembelajaran alternatif sedemikian boleh didapati di dalamnegeri, piagam dansekolah bebas serta persekitaranpembelajaran di rumah. Banyak alternatif pendidikan menekankan saiz kelas yang kecil, hubungan rapat antara pelajar dan guru dan semangat kemasyarakatan.

• Korn, Claire V. (1991).Alternative American Schools: Ideals in Action. Ithaca, New York: SUNY Press.
• Trickett, Edison J. (1991).Living an Idea: Empowerment and the Evolution of an Alternative High School. University of Maryland: Brookline Books.
• Churchill, Christian J. and Gerald E. Levy. (2012)The Enigmatic Academy: Class, Bureaucracy, and Religion in American Education, Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.

• Map of alternative education schools and projects byREEVO, Alternative Education Network
• Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
• International Association for Learning Alternatives
• Informal Education
• Special Education in Alternative Education Programs (ERIC Digest E585)
• National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools
• National Association for the Legal Support of Alternative Schools
• Reggio Children Foundation
• Eklavya (Indian educational NGO)
• Iowa Association of Alternative Education
• Oklahoma Technical Assistance Center
• Learning for a Cause (in Japanese)

• Pendidikan alternatif