Summerhill
Author : Alexander Sutherland Neill
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Child psychology
ISBN : 9780140135596
Author : Alexander Sutherland Neill
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Child psychology
ISBN : 9780140135596
Author : Vaughan, Mark
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0335219136
"Summerhill remains unique and different ... its underlying principles and its founding beliefs have informed and influenced generations of teachers in both sectors. It will continue to do so." - Professor Tim Brighouse, Commissioner for London Schools Summerhill is a world-renowned school in England where pupils decide when and what they will learn. The school was established in 1921 by A. S. Neill, who was named by the Times Educational Supplement in 1999 as one of the twelve most influential educators of the 20th Century. Known as 'the oldest children's democracy in the world', Summerhill allows pupils to air their views, propose new school rules and construct future plans for life at the school at the regular school meeting. This unique book contains key extracts from Neill's classic text Summerhill, a worldwide bestseller since its publication in 1962, and features contributions from A. S. Neill's daughter, Zoe Neill Readhead, who is the current Principal. She updates the story of the school - larger and more vibrant than ever before - from Neill's death in 1973 to the present day. In his contribution, Tim Brighouse discusses some of the ways in which the influence of Summerhill and A.S. Neill still extends throughout the world today. Ian Stronach, who acted as expert witness during the infamous court case, tells the story of the British Government's attempt to force untenable changes or close down the school in 2001, and the school's subsequent landmark victory in the Royal Courts of Justice. The book offers a truly inspiring account of a remarkable school, which promotes progressive change in the way pupils are taught and shows how real experiences of democracy can be created for young people. It is essential reading for teachers and trainee teachers, headteachers and school leaders, local education authorities and parents.
Author : Alexander Sutherland Neill
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 12,12 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Child rearing
ISBN :
Author : Alexander Sutherland Neill
Publisher : St Martins Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 17,12 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780312088606
A guide to experimental education, originally published in 1960 and expanded for the 1990s, features a discussion of how American education lags behind the rest of the world and what people can do to change that.
Author : Richard Bailey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,86 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 1441100423
A. S. Neill was probably the most famous school teacher of the twentieth century. His school, Summerhill, founded in 1921, attracted admiration and criticism from around the world, and became an emblem of radical school reform and child-centred education. Neill claimed that he was a practical man, but this book reveals that Summerhill expresses a comprehensive and distinctive set of ideas. Whether he wanted to be or not, Neill was an important educational thinker with a powerful influence on current educational approaches and philosophy. A. S. Neill is the first book to examine this philosophy of education in detail. It begins by showing how Neill's fascinating life story gives clues to the origin of his ideas, and why they mattered so much to him. It goes on to explore the main themes of his philosophy, showing how they relate to the work of other great educational thinkers, and how they are novel. It also discusses whether there are lessons that could and should be learned by other schools from the original, alternative 'free' school of Summerhill.
Author : Alexander Sutherland Neill
Publisher : Hart Associates
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 22,46 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
The adventures of a group who survived a poisonous cloud that turned everyone else into stone.
Author : Wilhelm Reich
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0374517703
Author : A. S. Neill
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN : 9780671813000
Author : Alexander Sutherland Neill
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Progressive education
ISBN :
Author : Mikey Cuddihy
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1782393153
Orphaned at the age of nine, Mikey Cuddihy left the U.S. to board at an experimental British school. A vivid and intense memoir of coming of age amidst the unraveling social experiment of the late 1960s. When Mikey Cuddihy was orphaned at the age of nine, her life exploded. She and her siblings were sent from New York to board at experimental Summerhill School, in England, and abandoned there. The setting was idyllic, lessons were optional, pupils made the rules. Joan Baez visited and taught Mikey guitar. The late sixties were in full swing, but with total freedom came danger. Mikey navigated this strange world of permissiveness and neglect, forging an identity almost in defiance of it.