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Summerhill School

bulletNeill, A. S., Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood, Revised, Editor: Lamb, Albert , Saint Martin's Press, LLC (1993), ISBN: 0312088604.
bulletNeill, A. S., Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, Pocket Books (1984) ISBN: 0671813021.
bulletNeill, A. S., Freedom--not license!, New York, Hart Pub. Co. (1966) (out of print).

Sudbury Valley School

bulletGreenberg, Daniel, A New Look at Schools. Sudbury Valley School Press, Framingham, Massachusetts (1992).
bulletThe Sudbury Valley School Experience. Sudbury Valley School Press, Framingham, Massachusetts (1992).   
bulletGreenberg, Daniel & Sadofsky, Mimsy,  Legacy of Trust: Life after the Sudbury Valley School Experience, Sudbury Valley School Press, (1992) ISBN: 1888947047

Education

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The Art of Doing Nothing is a short piece discussing the role and challenges of Staff at liberty-based schools.

A Short Description of The New School is a brief outline of some of the main features of The New School.

TEN HOWS AND WHAT IFS discusses the effects of The New School's approach on the children who attend.

Questions? Answers! is a discussion of nine frequently asked questions about The New School.

bulletAlcott, Louise M., Little Men / Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys. Complete Authorized Edition. Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, New York (1913).
bulletCsikszentmihalyi, Mihaly, Flow / The Psychology of Optimal Experience. Harper Perennial, a division of Harper Collins Publishers, New York (1991).
bulletCsikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Isabell Selega Csikszentmihalyi, editors, Optimal experience / Psychological studies of flow in consciousness. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England (1985).
bulletKuhn, Deanna, The skills of argument. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, Port Chester, Melbourne, Sydney (1991).
bulletLlewellyn, Grace, Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School & Get a Real Life & Education, Revised, Edition Number 02, Lowry House (1998), ISBN: 0962959170.
bulletRousseau, Jean-Jacques, Emile or On Education. Introduction, Translation, and Notes by Allan Bloom. Basic Books, Inc., Publishers, New York (1979).
bulletScribner, Sylvia and Michael Cole, The Psychology of Literacy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England (1985).
bulletTodorov, Tzvetan, Mikhail Bakhtin / The Dialogical Principle. Translated by Wlad Godzich. Theory and History of Literature, Volume 13. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis (1988).
bulletVygotsky, L.S., Mind in Society / The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Edited by Michael Cole, Vera John-Steiner, Sylvia Scribner, Ellen Souberman. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England (1978).
bulletVygotsky, Lev, Thought and Language. Translation newly revised and edited by Alex Kozulin. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England (1986).
bulletWertsch, James V., Voices of the Mind / A Sociocultural Approach to Mediated Action. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1991).
bullet----, ----, Vygotsky and the Social Formation of Mind. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England (1985).
bullet----, ----, editor, Culture, communication, and cognition: Vygotskian perspectives. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England (1985).

Nick & John.

Other:

bulletFaber, Adele & Mazlish, Elaine, How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, Edition Number 20, Morrow/Avon, (1999), ISBN: 0380811960.
bulletBarr, Stringfellow, Notes on Dialogue, St. John's College Web Site

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