Re: [AEROlistserve] scientific publications on democratic schools

Dana Matthew Bennis wrote:

> Hi Martin - when you say "scientific," what do you mean?  Do you mean
> anything that is a formal study, or specifically quantitative,
> empirical studies?  

Preferably qualitative comparative or case studies of individual 
democratic schools. For the purpose of my thesis I want to focus an 
individuals rights and freedoms of students in democratic schools, on 
the democratic structure and on the judicial systems. Aspects like the 
benefit of play, age-mixing, learning theories etc. will not be part of 
my work. However I'd be interested in them personally anyway, just not 
for the thesis.

> There are very few of either, especially the
> latter.  I'll describe here what I know, including my own research
> which I have just completed, 

Your description below sounds interesting. I'd be happy to read your 
thesis. You can send it to me off-list.

> and I urge others to mention other
> studies.  This message goes a bit long, but there is much to say and I
> believe it is important to focus more on research.
> 
> Certainly you know about the two Sudbury books, Todd mentioned one of
> them in a previous post.  

I suppose you mean "The Legacy of Trust" and "The Pursuit of Happiness". 
And have both of them.

> Peter Gray is a professor who has also done
> several formal studies on Sudbury Valley that have been published in
> journals.  You will find links to several of these articles by
> searching for "gray sudbury valley" at http://scholar.google.com/.  

Thank you that was helpful. I didn't know of scholar.google.com. I'll 
see what I can find there.

Martin Wilke


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