Sudbury schools practice a form of schooling in which students individually decide what to do with their time, and learn as a by-product of ordinary experience rather than through classes or a standard curriculum.[1] Students have complete responsibility for their own education and the school is run by a direct democracy in which students and staff have an equal vote.[2]
The 'Sudbury' name refers to Sudbury Valley School, founded in 1968 in Framingham, Massachusetts. The Sudbury Valley School has been the inspiration for numerous schools[3] many of which refer to themselves as 'Sudbury schools.'
The Sudbury Valley School formally rejects the idea that there can be an official definition or official list of Sudbury schools and in 2016 ended its earlier practice of linking to other schools which claimed to operate in a manner similar to them.[4] Daniel Greenberg, one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School has written that there are two things that distinguish a Sudbury Model school: everyone is treated equally and there is no authority other than that granted by the consent of the school community.[5]
Current Sudbury schools
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editUnited Kingdom
editUnited States
edit- The Circle School, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- The Clearwater School, Bothell, Washington
- Fairhaven School, Upper Marlboro, Maryland
- The Highland School, Ellenboro, West Virginia
- Philadelphia Free School, Philadelphia
- Sudbury Valley School, Framingham, Massachusetts
- Three Rivers Village School, Pittsburgh
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Sudbury Valley School • About SVS - School Days Archived 2009-02-19 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved September 2, 2013.
- ^ Ellis, Arthur K. (2004). Exemplars of curriculum theory. Eye on Education. ISBN 1-930556-70-5.
- ^ "Education: Class Dismissed". Psychology Today. 2006-05-01. Retrieved September 2, 2013.
Since 1991, more than three dozen Sudbury-type schools have sprouted around the country and the world.
- ^ "Other Schools". Archived from the original on 2018-04-25.
- ^ Greenberg, Daniel (2016). A Place to Grow. Sudbury Valley School Press. ISBN 978-1-888947-26-7.
External links
edit- Self-Directed Democratic Schools List of schools that self-identify as democratic or Sudbury