On this page you can find links to contributions written by people affiliated with progressive education. It is a selection of readings (by no means comprehensive), which will introduce some ideas related to progressive, alternative and democratic education.
Not all publishing details are included. If you have comments and suggestions for this list please contact us.
Bibliography
Australia
Cohen, David, Alternative Education The Currambena Experience 1994, (This and a range of titles including: Feeling Free to Learn, Progressive Education and Liberating Curriculum from Sacred Cows, are available at Curriculum Resources – 12 Craddock Avenue, Caulfield North, VIC 3161; ph 03-9528 1329
O’Carroll, P & Berryman, F. (1980), Start Your Own School, Fitzroy Community School, Melbourne
Shann, S. (1987), AME School: School Portrait.
Furnass, A. (Editor) (1988), The AME School An Historical Record, The Ame School Canberra 1988
White, N.R. (1995), School Matters: The Preshil Alternative in Education
A.S. Huber (1995), Transfer of Embedded Symbolic Information Between Home and School: A grounded theory of how young children develop idiosyncratic responses during the construction of literacy in the classroom, Unpublished doctoral thesis, Graduate School of Education, University of Wollongong, Australia.
1. “Reflections on the work of the Primary Teacher into the Twenty First Century: The case of literacy teaching and learning at one school” available at www.adrienne.huber.net
2. “Help! Liam cannot read” available at www.literacytrust.org.uk/Pubs/huber.html
3. “The getting of an-education: The real magic of learning” available at www.zmag.org/hubereduca.htm
Porter, L. (2000), Student Behaviour Theory and Practice for Teachers, Allen and Unwin 2000
Porter, L. (2001), Children are People too “A parent’s guide to young children’s behaviour”, Small Poppies SA 2001
Berryman, T. (2000), Education for Peace Requires the Growth of the Whole Child Dissertation Prepared toward the M.Litt program in Peace Studies at the University of New England Find on Fitzroy Community School website
Mortimer, A.(2001), Progressive Education: The Lived Experiences Of Currambena School (1969 to 2001) Find on Currambena website
International
Neill, A.S.
- 1916 A Dominie’s Log
- 1917 A Dominie Dismissed
- 1919 The Booming of Bunkie
- 1921 A Dominie in Doubt & Carroty Broon
- 1924 A Dominie’s Five
- 1926 The Problem Child
- 1945 Hearts Not Heads in the School
- 1946 The Problem Teacher
- 1949 The problem Family
- 1953 The Free Child
- 1964 Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
- 1966 Freedom Not Licence & Talking About Summerhill
- 1972 Neill! Neill! Orange Peel!
Lamb, A. (ed) (1992), The New Summerhill, Penguin Books, London
Lawson, M. (ed) (1973), Summerhill: For and Against
Neill, A.S. (1967), Talking of Summerhill, Victor Gollancz, London
Appleton, M. A. (2003), Free Range Childhood, Self-Regulation at Summerhill School
Rousseau,J.J.& R.l.Archer (1964), Jean Jacques Rousseau: His educational theories selected from Emile, Julie and other writings.
Godwin,W (1797), Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness ( republished a few times in the 20th century)
Tolstoy,L. (1862), Tolstoy on Education (1967: University of Chicago Press)
James, W.(1890, 1981), The Principles of Psychology, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
Pestalozzi, J (1894), (1977) How Gertrude Teaches Her Children
Dewey, J. (1916), Democracy and Education
Goldman, E. & Shulman, A.K. (1972), Red Emma Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman (works originally published between 1906 and 1934)
Durrant, W. (1926-1961), Story of Philosophy
Russell, B (1926), On Education: Especially in Early Childhood
Russell, D. (1932), In Defence of Children
Krishnamurti, Jiddu (1953/1981), Education and the Significance of Life, Harper Collins 1981
Rogers, C. (1961), On Becoming a Person. A therapist’s view of psychotherapy
Rogers, C. (1969,1983), Freedom to Learn
Aries,P. (1962), Centuries of Childhood
Holt, J. (1964), How Children Fail
Holt, J. (1967), How Children Learn
Holt, J. (1970), The Underachieving School, Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth
Holt, J. (1976), Instead of Education, Pelican Books, Harmondsworth
Virginia Axline (1968), Dibs – In Search of Self
Perry, L. (ed) (1967), Bertrand Russell/ A.S. Neill/ Homer Lane/ W. H. Kirkpatrick, Collier-Macmillan Publishers, London
O’Neill, W. (ed) (1969), Selected Educational Heresies, Scott, Foresman and Company, Glenview
Friere, P. (1970), Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Friere, P. (1972), Cultural Action for Freedom
Illich, I. (1971), Deschooling Society, Penguin Books, Middlesex
Reimer, E. (1971), School is Dead: An Essay on Alternatives in Education, Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth
Postman, N. & Weingartner, C. (1972), Teaching as A Subversive Activity, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth
Ferrer, F (1972), The Origin and Ideals of the Modern School
Macklin, M. (1976), When Schools are Gone – A Projection of the thought of Ivan Illich, University of Queensland Press, St. Lucia
Lister, I. (ed) (1974), De-schooling, A Reader, Cambridge University Press, London
Musgrave, P.W. & Selleck, R.J.W. (1975), Alternative Schools, John Wiley & Sons, Sydney
Avrich, P. (1980), The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States
Placzek, B.R. (ed) (1982), Record of a Friendship – The Correspondence of Wilhelm Reich and A.S.Neill:1936-1957
Smith, M. (1983), The Libertarians and Education, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London
Snitzer, H. (1983), ‘A.S. Neill Remembered’, Educational Leadership Vol. 41, No. 2, October 1983, p. 56
Gold, M. & Mann, D. (1984), Expelled to a Friendlier Place – A Study of Effective Alternative Schools, The University of Michigan Press, Ann
Friere, P.& Shor, I. (1987), A Pedagogy for Liberation, Macmillan, Houndmills
Walta, C (1990), A.S. Neill and the Russells: Theory and Practice in English Progressive Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Greenberg, D. and Sadofsky, M. (1992), Legacy of Trust: Life After the Sudbury Valley School Experience
Shotton, John (1993), No Master High or Low “Libertarian Education and Schooling 1890-1990”, Libertarian Education
Semler, Ricardo (1993), Maverick
Semler, Ricardo (1993), The Seven-Day Weekend
Quinn, D. (1995), Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
Quinn, D. (1999), Beyond Civilisation: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure
Dayton, J. (1995), Democracy, Public Schools and the Politics of Education
Kohn, A. (1996), Beyond Discipline From Compliance to Community, Association for Supervision and curriculum Development Alexandra Virginia
Gribble,D, (1998), Real Education, Varieties of Freedom, Libertarian Education, UK
Mercogliano,C., Making It Up As We Go Along, The Story of the Albany Free School
Clarke, Mary E. (2002), In Search of Human Nature
Atlee, T. (2002) The Tao of Democracy
Nagata,Y. and Manivannan,R. (Eds) (2002) Prospect and Retrospect of Alternative Education in the Asia – Pacific Region, Report of the International Seminar for the Development of Alternative Education: Sharing Experiences among ‘Free School’ Educators in Asia and the Pacific, National Institute for Educational Policy Research of Japan (NIER)
Sarason, S.B. (2002), Educational Reform: A Self Scrutinizing Memoir
Gee, J.P. (2003) What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy
Greenberg, D. Sadofsky, M, Lempka,J.(2005) The Pursuit of Happiness: The Lives of Sudbury Valley Alumni
Stinton, J (2005), The Little Commonwealth and Homer Lane
For other titles about the Sudbury experience:
www.sudval.org/02_book_05.html
For more titles and writings:
www.educationrevolution.org/books.html
www.spinninglobe.net/bookstore.html
www.creatinglearningcommunities.org
Articles
Education in the Alternative, Sustainable Societyby Ted Trainer
Education; Outline of a Radically Critical View by Ted Trainer
Pluralistic Learning as the Core of Democratic Education by Yaacov Hecht
Why democratic values and human rights are so important and worth fighting for by Derek Sheppard
A Vision for Democratic Education as part of the movement for Democracy in Israel/Palestine and worldwide by Rotem Mor, 2008