Democratic Education - Scholars

Scholars

• Joseph Agassi - Israeli philosopher and proponent of democracy
• Michael Apple - Social scientist, democratic education scholar, University of Wisconsin–Madison
• Pierre Bourdieu - Anthropologist, social theorist, College de France
• Émile Durkheim - Sociologist, functionalist education theorist
• George Dennison - American writer, author
• John Dewey - Social scientist, progressive education theorist, University of Chicago
• Michel Foucault - Post-modern philosopher, University of California, Berkeley
• Peter Gray - Psychologist, democratic education scholar, Boston College
• Amy Gutmann - Political scientist, democratic education scholar, President of the University of Pennsylvania
• Daniel A. Greenberg - One of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School.
• John Holt - Critic of conventional education and proponent of home-schooling
• Homer Lane - Democratic education pioneer, founder of the Ford Republic (1907–12) and the Little Commonwealth (1913–17)
• A.S. Neill - Democratic education pioneer, founder of the Summerhill School
• Claus Offe - Political Scientist, theorist of deliberative democratic culture, Hertie School of Governance
• Karl Popper - Philosopher at the London School of Economics
• Bertrand Russell - Philosopher, author of "On Education" and founder of Beacon House School