Thomas F. Green
Professor Emeritus
Education
Syracuse University
tfgreen@mailbox.syr.edu
Voice phone: 315-677-9935
Mail: Box 100
Pompey Hill, NY 13138
Tom Green is Professor Emeritus, Philosophy and Education,
Syracuse University.
From 1980 until his retirement in 1993 he was Margaret Slocum
Professor of Education. He was a faculty member in the School of
Education from 1964. He has earned degrees from the University of
Nebraska and a PhD in philosophy from Cornell University.
He is author of six books--one more than Moses--and nearly a
hundred articles on teaching, educational policy, school finance,
moral and theological education and educational and social forecasting.
From 1967-73, he was founding Director or Co-Director of the
Educational Policy Research Center at Syracuse, a federally funded
center for the study of education policy and social forecasting.
He was President of the Philosophy of Education Society, 1975-76.
Since, 1979, he has been officer or member of the National Academy
of Education, an elected body of outstanding American scholars and
educational leaders. He is and has been at various times, a John
Simon Guggenheim Fellow, a Whitehead Fellow of Harvard University,
Fellow of the National Institute of Education and Senior Research
Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary.
He was a Fulbright Lecturer in the American Studies Seminar,
Kyoto Japan, July 1985, and has been guest lecturer or visiting
Professor at more than a dozen American Universities. He was,
for a time, a regular consultant to the Country Planning Program of
the OECD in Paris, to the developers of a New-Town in Central
New York, and joint author of a policy paper on the uses of computers
in instruction for The World Bank..
His books include
- Predicting the Behavior of the Educational System, (Syracuse
University Press, 1980)
- Work, Leisure, and the American Schools, (New York, Random
House, 1970)
- The Activities of Teaching, (New York, McGraw Hill, 1971)
He is currently engaged in work on a companion volume in
philosophy of education and pedagogy.
- Walls: Education in Communities of Text and Liturgy
Among his recent publications are the following:
- Voices: The Educational Formation of Consicence (Notre Dame University
Press, 1999.
- "Needed: A Pedagogy Please!" in The Condition of American
Liberal Education: Pragmatism and a Changing Tradition.
Commentary on an essay by Bruce Kimball (The College
Entrance Examination Board, New York, 1995)
- "Distributive Justice in Education," The 1990 American Education
Finance Association Yearbook: Spheres of Justice in
Education, eds., Deborah A. Verstegen and James G. Ward,
(New York, Harper Business, 1991) Chapt. 9 pgs. 221-238.
- "Public Speech", the 1993 DeGarmo Lecture of the Society of the
University Professoriate. Teachers College Record,
vol. 95, Number 3, Spring 1994.
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