ISBN: 0140167838
Godina izdanja: 1992
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alexander Sutherland Neill - The New Summerhill
Penguin, 1992
269 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro

Albert Lamb, an ex-pupil and now the Summerhill librarian has edited the current edition of Summerhill. This book contains additional material taken from A.S. Neill`s many books and other writings. The first section covers topics such as the school, how it works, problems and teacher-pupil interactions, with examples of Neill`s own involvement with the children. The second section is Neill`s autobiography - with accounts of his childhood in Scotland, his father`s school, university, the influence of Homer Lane and Wilhelm Reich upon his life and the development of his teaching ideas which culminated in the foundation of Summerhill.

`Summerhill has shown the world that a school can abolish fear of teachers and, deeper down, fear of life` - from A. S. Neill`s Introduction
Founded in 1921, Summerhill was based on self-government and a simple underlying philosophy: `All crimes, all hatreds, all wars can be reduced to unhappiness... children can be reared so that much of this unhappiness will never arise.` Over seventy years later, the pioneering free school retains an immense international influence. Summerhill (1960), Neill`s classic account, was a world-wide bestseller. Here, for this major new version, Albert Lamb has distilled over fifteen of Neill`s published works to present undiluted his forthright views on sex and religion, creativity and discipline, problem children, the need for play and the real nature of learning. In a second section A. S. Neill gives his own life story. Combining autobiography, reflection, anecdote and a richly detailed account of daily life at a unique school, it makes a perfect monument to one of the greatest educationalists of the twentieth century.
`Summerhill is a small school, but it signifies a great experiment in education... its founder has proved (despite much discouragement and revilement) one simple truth - freedom works... I place Neill among the great reforming teachers, bringing light and love into places (the home as well as the school) where there was once tyranny and fear - Sir Herbert Read


Nonfiction, Pedagogy, 0140167838, Samerhil, Aleksandar Saterlend Nil