Daniel A. Greenberg (28 September 1934 – 2 December 2021), was one of the founders of the
Sudbury Valley School
The Sudbury Valley School was founded in 1968 by a community of people in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States. As of 2019, there are several schools that state that they are based on the Sudbury Model in the United States, Australia, Belgi ...
, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization, and has been described by Sudbury Valley School trustee
Peter Gray as the "principal philosopher" among its founders. He was a former physics professor at
Columbia University
Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
, and is described by
Lois Holzman
Lois Holzman is director and co-founder of the East Side Institute in New York, New York, where she developed social therapy methods with Fred Newman (philosopher), Fred Newman. She is known for her research and work on play therapy, social therap ...
as the school's "chief 'philosophical writer'".
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'',
* 1974, ''Outline of a New Philosophy'',
* 1987, ''Child Rearing'',
* 1988, ''Early lessons : some recollections of my youth and what it taught me'',
* 1991, ''Free at Last: The Sudbury Valley School'',
* 1992, ''The Sudbury Valley School Experience'' with Hanna Greenberg, Michael Greenberg, Laura Ransom, Mimsy Sadofsky and Alan White,
* 1992, ''Legacy of Trust, Life After the Sudbury Valley School Experience'' with Mimsy Sadofsky,
* 1992, ''A New Look at Schools'',
* 1992, ''Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley'',
* 1994, ''Worlds in Creation'',
* 1994, ''Kingdom of Childhood, Growing Up At Sudbury Valley School'' with Mimsy Sadofsky and Hanna Greenberg,
* 1995, ''Sudbury Valley School Handbook'',
* 1998, ''Starting a Sudbury School: A Summary of the Experiences of Fifteen Start-Up Groups'' with Mimsy Sadofsky,
* 1999, ''Reflections on the Sudbury School Concept'' with Mimsy Sadofsky,
* 2000, ''A Clearer View: New Insights into the Sudbury School Model'',
* 2004, ''The Pursuit of Happiness: The Lives of Sudbury Valley Alumni'' with Mimsy Sadofsky and Jason Lempka,
* 2008, ''Turning Learning Right Side Up: Putting Education Back on Track'' with
Russell L. Ackoff
Russell Lincoln Ackoff (February 12, 1919 – October 29, 2009) was an American organizational theorist, consultant, and Anheuser-Busch Professor Emeritus of Management Science at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Ackoff was a pion ...
, .
* 2016, ''A Place to Grow: The Culture of Sudbury Valley School'', .
* 2018, ''America at Risk: How Schools Undermine Our Country's Core Values'', .
* 2018, ''Constructing reality: The Most Creative of All the Arts'',.
;Chapters
* 1994, "Democratic to the Core: Life in Sudbury Valley School", in ''The Handbook of Alternative Education''.
;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
The ''Journal of Experiential Education'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the field of experiential education. The editor-in-chief is Jayson Seaman (University of New Hampshire). It was established in 1978 and is published ...
'', 10(1), pp. 46–47.
;Articles
* 1991, ''Learning without coercion: Sudbury Valley School'' in ''
Mothering
]
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'', 58, pp. 102–105.
* 1985-1992, regular column in the
The MetroWest Daily News, Middlesex News on education in America.
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References
External links
Interview with Daniel Greenberg (2001)
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1934 births
2021 deaths
Columbia University faculty
20th-century American educators
21st-century American educators
American education writers
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American non-fiction writers
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers