Abstract

General trends of innovations in Russian system of education are connected with the ideas of humanism, the priority of developing the child's personality, creative collaboration of teachers and students as equal subjects. In addition, the Russian school officials have nowadays possibilities to implement the variability of curricula, to open author schools. The existing experience of different countries in creation of multi-choice alternative schools, their successful activities and international recognition becomes a real basis for the development of Russian school and pedagogy. These points actualize the research of alternative education systems. The article is devoted to the historical development, and the experience of the alternative educational system Sudbury Valley School, founded in 1968 in Framingham Massachusetts USA. Alternative educational movement Sudbury Valley includes about 40 schools in the United States, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Israel and others. We consider this educational system a positive model for reforming school in Russia.

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