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Democratic
Education Book Resource List
Many of the books below can be found online at
www.educationrevolution.org/products.html.
By purchasing the books from this site, you will
be supporting the continuation of this free
online resource. We also suggest checking
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Appleton, M. (2000).
A free-range childhood: Self
regulation at Summerhill School. Brandon,
VT: Foundation for Educational Renewal.
Avrich, P. (1980/2005)
The Modern School movement:
Anarchism and education in the United States.
Oakland, CA: AK Press.
Ayers, W.. (2003). On the side of the child:
Summerhill revisited. New York: Teachers
College Press.
Bergmann, F. (1977). On being free. Notre
Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.
Berman, C. (1994). The School Around Us: 25 years.
Buxton, ME: Buxton Press.
Biesta, G. (2006). Beyond learning: democratic
education for a human future. Boulder, CO:
Paradigm Publishers.
Croall, J. (1983): All the best, Neill. Letters
from Summerhill. London, UK: André Deutsch.
Deci, E. L., & Flaste, R. (1995). Why we do what we
do: Understanding self-motivation. New
York: Penguin Books.
Dennison, G. (1969). The lives of children; The
story of the First Street School. New York:
Random House.
Dewey, J. (1916/1997)
Democracy and education.
New York: The Free Press.
Dewey, J. (1938).
Experience and education.
New York: Collier MacMillan Publishers.
Eisler, R. (2000).
Tomorrow’s children: A blueprint
for partnership education in the 21st century.
Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Ferm. E. (2005). Freedom in education.
Indiana, PA: Factory School.
Fortune-Wood, J. (2000).
Doing it their way:
Home-based education and autonomous learning.
Nottingham, England: Educational Heretics Press.
Gatto, J. (1992).
Dumbing us down: The hidden
curriculum of compulsory schooling.
Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers.
Graubard, A. (1972). Free the children: Radical
reform and the free school movement. New
York: Vintage Books.
Greenberg, D. (1995).
Free at last: The Sudbury
Valley School. Framingham, MA: Sudbury
Valley School Press.
Greenberg, D. (2000). A clearer view: New insights
into the Sudbury School model. Framingham,
MA: Sudbury Valley School Press.
Greenberg, D., Sadofsky, M., & Lempka, J. (2005).
The pursuit of happiness: The lives of Sudbury
Valley alumni. Framingham, MA: Sudbury
Valley School Press.
Gregory, T. (1993). Making high school work:
Lessons from the Open School. New York, NY:
Teachers College Press.
Gribble, D. (2004).
Lifelines. Bristol, UK:
Libertarian Education.
Gribble, D. (1998).
Real education: Varieties of
freedom. Bristol, UK: Libertarian
Education.
Gribble, D. (2006).
Worlds apart. Bristol, UK:
Libertarian Education.
Harrison, S. (2002).
The happy child: Changing the
heart of education. Boulder, CO: Sentient
Publications.
Hecht, Y. (2006). Democratic education: A story
with a beginning. Manuscript submitted for
publication.
Hern, M. (2003).
Field day: Getting society out of
our lives. Vancouver, BC, Canada: New Star
Books.
Holt, J. (1995). Freedom and beyond (Rev.
ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.
Holt, J. (1964/1995).
How children fail.
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Holt, J. (1967/1995).
How children learn.
Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Illich, I. (1971/1999)
Deschooling society.
London, UK: Marion Boyars Publishers.
Kozol, J. (1972). Free schools. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin.
Krishnamurti, J. (1953/1981)
Education and the
significance of life. San Francisco, CA:
HarperSanFrancisco.
Lamb, A. (1992). The new Summerhill. London,
UK: Penguin Books.
Lane, H. (1969). Talks to parents and teachers.
New York: Schocken Books.
Leue, M. (1992).
Challenging the giant: The best of
skole: The journal of alternative education vol.
1. Ashfield, MA: Down-to-Earth Books.
Leue, M. (1994).
Challenging the giant: The best of
skole: The journal of alternative education vol.
2. Ashfield, MA: Down-to-Earth Books.
Leue, M. (1996).
Challenging the giant: The best of
skole: The journal of alternative education vol.
3. Ashfield, MA: Down-to-Earth Books.
Leue, M. (2000).
Challenging the giant: The best of
skole: The journal of alternative education vol.
4. Ashfield, MA: Down-to-Earth Books.
Llewellyn, G. (1997).
The teenage liberation
handbook: How to quit school and get a real life
& education. Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK:
Element Books Limited.
Mercogliano, C. (2006).
How to grow a school:
Starting and sustaining schools that work.
New York, NY: Oxford Village Press.
Mercogliano, C. (2007).
In defense of childhood:
Protecting kids' inner wildness. Boston,
MA: Beacon Press.
Mercogliano, C. (1998).
Making it up as we go
along: The story of the Albany Free School.
Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann Press.
Mercogliano, C. (2004).
Teaching the restless: One
school’s remarkable no-ritalin approach to
helping children learn and succeed. Boston,
MA: Beacon Press.
Miller, R. (2000). Creating learning communities:
Models, resources, and new ways of thinking
about teaching and learning. Brandon. VT:
The Foundation for Educational Renewal.
Miller, R. (2002).
Free schools, free people:
Education and democracy after the 1960s.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Miller, R. (1997). What are schools for?: Holistic
education in American culture. Brandon, VT:
Holistic Education Press.
Mintz, J. (2003).
Homework and recess all day: How
to have freedom and democracy in education.
New York: Bravura Books.
Morrison, K. (2007).
Free school teaching: A journey into radical
progressive education. Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press.
Neill, A. S. (1916). A dominie's log. London,
UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1917). A dominie dismissed.
London, UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1921). A dominie in doubt.
London, UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1923). A dominie abroad. London,
UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1924). A dominie’s five. London,
UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1926). The problem child.
London, UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1932). The problem parent.
London, UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1936).
Is Scotland educated?. London, UK:
Routledge.
Neill, A. S. (1937). That dreadful school.
London, UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1939). The problem teacher.
London, UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1945). Hearts not heads in the
school. London, UK: Herbert Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1949).
The problem family. London, UK: Herbert
Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1953).
The free child. London, UK: Herbert
Jenkins.
Neill, A. S. (1960).
Summerhill: A radical approach
to child-rearing. New York: Hart Pub. Co.
Neill, A. S. (1966).
Freedom – not license.
New York, NY: Hart Publishing Company.
Neill, A.S. (1967). Talking of Summerhill.
London, UK: Gollancz.
Neill, A.S. (1973). Neill! Neill! orange peel!: A
personal view of ninety years. London, UK:
Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Placzek, B.R. (1981). Record of a friendship: The
correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A. S. Neill.
London, UK: Gollancz.
Robert, H. M. (1951/1915). Robert’s rules of order:
Revised. Chicago, IL: Scott, Foresman and
Company.
Rogers, C. and Freiberg, H. J. (1994). Freedom to
learn, 3rd Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ:
Prentice Hall.
Rousseau, J. J. & R. L. Archer. (1964). Jean
Jacques Rousseau: His educational theories
selected from Émile, Julie and other writings.
(R.L. Archer, Trans.). Woodbury, NY:
Barron’s Educational Series, Inc. (Original work
published 1762)
Sadofsky, M. & Greenberg, D. (1992).
The Sudbury
Valley School experience. Framingham, MA:
Sudbury Valley School Press.
Sadofsky, M. & Greenberg, D. (1994).
Kingdom of
childhood: Growing up at Sudbury Valley School.
Framingham, MA: Sudbury Valley School Press.
Sadofsky, M. & Greenberg, D. (1998). Reflections on
the Sudbury School concept. Framingham, MA:
Sudbury Valley School Press.
Sego Lily School. (2006).
Trusting children: A look
at Sudbury education around the world. Salt
Lake City, UT: Sego Lily School.
Smith, M. P. (1983). The libertarians and education.
London: George Allen & Unwin.
Snitzer, H. (1972). Today is for children: Numbers
can wait. New York: The Macmillan Company.
Spring, J. (1994). Wheels in the head: Educational
philosophies of authority, freedom, and culture
from Socrates to Paulo Freire. New York:
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Tolstoy, L. (1862/1967). Tolstoy on education.
(L. Wiener, Trans.). Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press.
Vaughn, M. (2004). Summerhill & A.S. Neill.
Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK: Open University Press
Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Mind in society: The
development of higher psychological processes.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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