Daniel Greenberg (educator)

Daniel A. Greenberg (28 September 1934 – 2 December 2021), was one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization,^[1] and was described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Gray as the "principal philosopher" among its founders.^[2] He was a physics professor at Columbia University, and was 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 1-888947-11-X
1974, Outline of a New Philosophy, ISBN 1-888947-17-9
1987, Child Rearing, ISBN 1-888947-06-3
1988, Early lessons : some recollections of my youth and what it taught me, ISBN 1-888947-09-8
1991, Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School, ISBN 1-888947-00-4
1992, The Sudbury Valley School Experience with Hanna Greenberg, Michael Greenberg, Laura Ransom, Mimsy Sadofsky and Alan White, ISBN 1-888947-01-2
1992, Legacy of Trust, Life After the Sudbury Valley School Experience with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888947-04-7
1992, A New Look at Schools, ISBN 1-888947-03-9
1992, Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley, ISBN 1-888947-07-1
1994, Worlds in Creation, ISBN 1-888947-10-1
1994, Kingdom of Childhood, Growing Up At Sudbury Valley School with Mimsy Sadofsky and Hanna Greenberg, ISBN 1-888-94702-0
1995, Sudbury Valley School Handbook, ISBN 1-888947-14-4
1998, Starting a Sudbury School: A Summary of the Experiences of Fifteen Start-Up Groups with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888947-19-5
1999, Reflections on the Sudbury School Concept with Mimsy Sadofsky, ISBN 1-888947-20-9
2000, A Clearer View: New Insights into the Sudbury School Model, ISBN 1-888947-22-5
2004, The Pursuit of Happiness: The Lives of Sudbury Valley Alumni with Mimsy Sadofsky and Jason Lempka, ISBN 1-888947-25-X
2008, Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track with Russell L. Ackoff, ISBN 0-13-234649-4.
2016, A Place to Grow: The Culture of Sudbury Valley School, ISBN 1-888947-26-8.
2018, America at Risk: How Schools Undermine Our Country's Core Values, ISBN 1-888947-32-2.
2018, Constructing reality: The Most Creative of All the Arts, ISBN 1-888947-28-4.

Chapters

1994, "Democratic to the Core: Life in Sudbury Valley School", in The Handbook of Alternative Education.^[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.
1985-1992, regular column in the Middlesex News on education in America.^[5]

References

^ Marano, Hara Estroff (2008). A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting. Random House. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-7679-2403-0.
^ Gray, Peter and David Chanoff (February 1986). "Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education?". American Journal of Education. 94 (2). The University of Chicago Press: 182–213. doi:10.1086/443842. JSTOR 1084948. S2CID 144733976. 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.
^ Holzman, Lois (1997). Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives To Current Education Models. United Kingdom: Lawrence Erlbaum. p. 94. ISBN 0-8058-2357-3.
^ Jerry Mintz; Raymond Solomon (June 1994). The handbook of alternative education. Macmillan Pub. Co. pp. 363–365. ISBN 978-0-02-897303-6. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
^ Compiled in Daniel Greenberg (1 January 1992). Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley. The Sudbury Valley School. ISBN 978-1-888947-07-6. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

External links

Interview with Daniel Greenberg (2001)

[1] Marano, Hara Estroff (2008). A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting. Random House. p. 232. ISBN 978-0-7679-2403-0.

[2] Gray, Peter and David Chanoff (February 1986). "Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education?". American Journal of Education. 94 (2). The University of Chicago Press: 182–213. doi:10.1086/443842. JSTOR 1084948. S2CID 144733976. 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 0-8058-2357-3.

[MintzSolomon1994-4] Jerry Mintz; Raymond Solomon (June 1994). The handbook of alternative education. Macmillan Pub. Co. pp. 363–365. ISBN 978-0-02-897303-6. Retrieved 26 May 2013.

[Greenberg1992-5] Compiled in Daniel Greenberg (1 January 1992). Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley. The Sudbury Valley School. ISBN 978-1-888947-07-6. Retrieved 20 May 2013.

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