Here is a list of English books. For other languages, please see the last menu item “å··ω”: Dutch, Estonian, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, etc.
Recommended first reading
Gray, Peter (2015): Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life, Basic Books, ISBN-13: 978-0465084999
Greenberg, Daniel (1995). Free at last: The Sudbury Valley School. Framingham, MA: Sudbury Valley School Press.
Neill, A. S. (1960). Summerhill: A radical approach to child-rearing. New York: Hart Pub. Co.
Other books
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.
Bennis, Dana M. / Graves, Isaac R. (2009) (ed.). The Directory of Democratic Education, third edition, http://democraticeducation.com/
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.
Dewey, J., & Dewey, E. (1915). Schools of To-Morrow. New York: EP Dutton & Co.
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.
Freire, P. (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum.
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, Daniel (2000). A clearer view: New insights into the Sudbury School model. Framingham, MA: Sudbury Valley School Press.
Greenberg, Daniel / Sadofsky, Mimsy / Lempka, Jason (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, David (2004). Lifelines. Bristol, UK: Libertarian Education.
Gribble, David (1998). Real education: Varieties of freedom. Bristol, UK: Libertarian Education.
Gribble, David (2006). Worlds apart. Bristol, UK: Libertarian Education.
Hannam, Derry (2020). Another Way is Possible – Becoming a Democratic Teacher in a State School. Smashwords.
Harrison, S. (2002). The happy child: Changing the heart of education. Boulder, CO: Sentient Publications.
Hecht, Yaacov (2010). Democratic education: A Beginning of a Story.
Hern, M. (2003). Field day: Getting society out of our lives. Vancouver, BC, Canada: New Star Books.
Holt, John (1995). Freedom and beyond (Rev. ed.). Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook Publishers.
Holt, John (1964/1995). How children fail. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Holt, John (1967/1995). How children learn. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press.
Illich, Ivan (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, Jerry (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. (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. (1975/1998). A Primer of Libertarian Education. Montreal: Black Rose Books.
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.
Ward, C. (1995). Talking Schools. London: Freedom Press.
see also:
- http://www.democraticeducation.org/library/
- http://www.educationrevolution.org/store/shop/
- Sudbury Valley School Press, http://sudburypress.com/