Daniel Greenberg (educator)
{{Short description|Co-founder of Sudbury Valley School (1934–2021)}}
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,{{cite book|title=A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting|last=Marano|first=Hara Estroff|year=2008|publisher=Random House|isbn=978-0-7679-2403-0|page=[https://archive.org/details/nationofwimpshig00mara/page/232 232]|url=https://archive.org/details/nationofwimpshig00mara/page/232}} and was described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Gray as the "principal philosopher" among its founders.{{cite journal|author=Gray, Peter and David Chanoff|date=February 1986|volume=94|issue=2|pages=182–213|title=Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education?|journal=American Journal of Education|jstor=1084948|publisher=The University of Chicago Press|doi=10.1086/443842|s2cid=144733976|quote=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.}} He was a physics professor at Columbia University, and was described by Lois Holzman as the school's "chief 'philosophical writer'".{{cite book|title= Schools for Growth: Radical Alternatives To Current Education Models|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=8gg6Tz5jclcC&q=chief+%27philosophical+writer%27+Schools+for+Growth:+Radical+Alternatives+To+Current+Education+Models&pg=PA94|last= Holzman|first= Lois|authorlink= Lois Holzman|year= 1997|publisher= Lawrence Erlbaum|location= United Kingdom|isbn= 0-8058-2357-3|page= 94}}
Publications
;Books
- 1964, Anaxagoras and the Birth of Physics with Daniel E. Gershenson, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/899834 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.{{cite book|author1=Jerry Mintz|author2=Raymond Solomon|title=The handbook of alternative education|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnskAQAAMAAJ|access-date=26 May 2013|date=June 1994|publisher=Macmillan Pub. Co.|isbn=978-0-02-897303-6|pages=363–365}}
;Papers
- 1960, [https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.119.435 Theory of Allowed and Forbidden Transitions in Muon Capture Reactions. II], with Masato Morita, in Physical Review, 119, pp. 435–437.
- 1960, [https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.120.1684 Theory of the Hyperfine Anomalies of Deuterium, Tritium, and Helium-3+], with Henry M. Foley, in Physical Review, 120, pp. 1684–1697.
- 1987, [http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ376759&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ376759 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.Compiled in {{cite book|author=Daniel Greenberg|title=Education in America: A View from Sudbury Valley|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQn_BA76TF4C|access-date=20 May 2013|date=1 January 1992|publisher=The Sudbury Valley School|isbn=978-1-888947-07-6}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110510143344/http://www.ait.net/technos/tq_10/1interview.php Interview with Daniel Greenberg (2001)]
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