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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing is a book about the English boarding school Summerhill School by its headmaster A. S. Neill. It is known for introducing his ideas to the American public. It was published in America on November 7, 1960, by the Hart Publishing Company and later revised as Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood in 1993. Its contents are a repackaged collection from four of Neill's previous works. The foreword was written by psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, who distinguished between authoritarian coercion and Summerhill.
The seven chapters of the book cover the origins and implementation of the school, and other topics in childrearing. Summerhill, founded in the 1920s, is run as a children's democracy under Neill's educational philosophy of self-regulation, where kids choose whether to go to lessons and how they want to live freely without imposing on others. The school makes its rules at a weekly schoolwide meeting where students and teachers each have one vote alike. Neill discarded other pedagogies for one of the innate goodness of the child.
Despite selling no advance copies in America, Summerhill brought Neill significant renown in the next decade, wherein he sold three million copies. The book was used in hundreds of college courses and translated into languages such as German. Reviewers noted Neill's charismatic personality, but doubted the project's general replicability elsewhere and its overstated generalizations. They put Neill in a lineage of experimental thought, but questioned his lasting contribution to psychology. The book begat an American Summerhillian following, cornered an education criticism market, and made Neill into a folk leader.
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Summerhill Un Punto De Vista Radical Sobre La Educacin De Los Nios
2010, Fondo de Cultura Economica USA
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Summerhill: a radical approach to child rearing
1984, Pocket Books
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0671813021 9780671813024
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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing
April 1984, Hart Pub Co
Hardcover
in English
0805512993 9780805512991
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Summerhill: a radical approach to child rearing
1977, Pocket Books, Hart Pub. Co.
in English
0671790013 9780671790011
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Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Childrearing
August 1977, Pocket Books
Paperback
in English
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Libres enfants de Summerhill
1970, Éditions La Découverte, GALLIMARD
in French
207032284X 9782070322848
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Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Education (Pelican)
January 29, 1970, Penguin Books Ltd
in English
0140209409 9780140209402
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Summerhill - A Radical Approach to Education (Pelican)
January 29, 1970, Penguin Books Ltd
Paperback
in English
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Theorie und Praxis der antiautoritären Erziehung: Das Beispiel Summerhill
1970-06, Rowohlt Verlag
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in German
- 276.-325. Tausend Juni 1970
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Summerhill: a radical approach to education. With a foreword by Erich Fromm.
1969, V. Gollancz
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Summerhill: a radical approach to education
1962, Victor Gollancz
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Summerhill: a radical approach to child rearing
1960, Pocket Books
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