Daniel Greenberg (educator)

Daniel A. Greenberg (born c. 1934), one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization,^[1] and has been described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Grey as the "principal philosopher" among its founders.^[2] He is a former physics professor at Columbia University, and is described by Lois Holzman as the school's "chief 'philosophical writer'".^[3]

Publications

Books

• 1964, Anaxagoras and the Birth of Physics with Daniel E. Gershenson, OCLC 899834
• 1973, Announcing a New School: A Personal Account of the Beginnings of the Sudbury Valley School, ISBN 1-888-94711-X
• 1974, Outline of a New Philosophy, ISBN 1-888-94717-9
• 1987, Child Rearing, ISBN 1-888-94706-3
• 1988, Early lessons : some recollections of my youth and what it taught me, ISBN 1-888-94709-8
• 1991, Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School, ISBN 1-888-94700-4
• 1992, The Sudbury Valley School Experience with Hanna Greenberg, Michael Greenberg, Laura Ransom, Mimsy Sadofsky and Alan White, ISBN 1-888-94701-2
• 1992, Legacy of Trust, Life After the Sudbury Valley School Experience with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888-94704-7
• 1992, A New Look at Schools, ISBN 1-888-94703-9
• 1992, Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley, ISBN 1-888-94707-1
• 1994, Worlds in Creation, ISBN 1-888-94710-1
• 1994, Kingdom of Childhood, Growing Up At Sudbury Valley School with Mimsy Sadofsky and Hanna Greenberg, 1-888-94702-0
• 1995, Sudbury Valley School Handbook, ISBN 1-888-94714-4
• 1998, Starting a Sudbury School: A Summary of the Experiences of Fifteen Start-Up Groups with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888-94719-5
• 1999, Reflections on the Sudbury School Concept with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888-94720-9
• 2000, A Clearer View: New Insights into the Sudbury School Model, ISBN 1-888-94722-5
• 2004, The Pursuit of Happiness: The Lives of Sudbury Valley Alumni with Mimsy Sadofsky and Jason Lempka, ISBN 1-888-94725-X
• 2008, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track with Russell L. Ackoff, ISBN 0-132-34649-4.

Papers

• 1960, Theory of Allowed and Forbidden Transitions in Muon Capture Reactions. II, with Masato Morita, in Physical Review, 119, pp. 435–437.
• 1960, Theory of the Hyperfine Anomalies of Deuterium, Tritium, and Helium-3⁺, with Henry M. Foley, in Physical Review, 120, pp. 1684–1697.
• 1987, Idea Notebook: Teaching Justice through Experience, in Journal of Experiential Education, 10(1), pp. 46–47.

Articles

• 1991, Learning without coercion: Sudbury Valley School in Mothering, 58, pp. 102–105.

References

1. ^ Marano, Hara Estroff (2008). A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting. Random House. p. 232. ISBN 0767924037. 
2. ^ Gray, Peter and David Chanoff (1986-02). "Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education?". American Journal of Education (The University of Chicago Press) 94 (2): 182–213. JSTOR 1084948. "The principal philosopher among the group of parents and others who founded SVS was Daniel Greenberg, a wide-ranging scholar who had previously taught physics and the history of science at Columbia University." 
3. ^ Holzman, Lois (1997). Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives To Current Education Models. United Kingdom: Lawrence Erlbaum. p. 94. ISBN 0805823573. http://books.google.com/books?id=8gg6Tz5jclcC&pg=PA94&dq=chief+%27philosophical+writer%27+Schools+for+Growth:+Radical+Alternatives+To+Current+Education+Models&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 

External links

• Interview with Daniel Greenberg (2001)

See also

• Modor

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