Thomas Franklin Green (8 February 1927 – 20 December 2006) was an American educational theorist and philosopher.

Biography

Born on 8 February 1927, Thomas Franklin Green was raised in Lincoln, Nebraska. His parents worked as a civil engineer and writer. He studied political science and philosophy at the University of Nebraska, graduating in 1948. Green elected to pursue a master's degree in philosophy, which he finished in 1949, at Nebraska. He subsequently earned a doctorate from Cornell University. Green began teaching at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, and furthered his career at

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

prior to joining

Syracuse University Syracuse University (informally 'Cuse or SU) is a Private university, private research university in Syracuse, New York. Established in 1870 with roots in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the university has been nonsectarian since 1920. Locate ...

in 1964. Four years later, he was awarded a

Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. Green was appointed Margaret O. Slocum Professor of Education in 1980, and retired from Syracuse in 1993. He died in Jamesville, New York, at the age of 79 on 20 December 2006.

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1927 births 2006 deaths American educational theorists Philosophers of education 20th-century American philosophers Michigan State University faculty Cornell University alumni University of Nebraska–Lincoln alumni Syracuse University faculty South Dakota School of Mines and Technology faculty People from Lincoln, Nebraska {{US-philosopher-stub