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Summerhill: For and against
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This article is published in The Family Coordinator.The article was published on 1971-10-01. It has received 17 citations till now.read more
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Democratic Schooling: What Happens to Young People Who Have Charge of Their Own Education?
Peter Gray,David Chanoff +1 more
TL;DR: A follow-up study was conducted of the graduates of the Sudbury Valley School (SVS), a democratically administered primary and secondary school that has no learning requirements but rather supports students' self-directed activities as mentioned in this paper.
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Can Liberal Education Make a Comeback? The Case of “Relational Touch” at Summerhill School
Ian Stronach,Heather Piper +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a case study of a school once internationally renowned as the exemplar of “free” schooling is presented, where the authors consider how the school works as a community, how it impacts on its students, and how it copes with the strictures of the audit culture in relation to risk and safety.
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Adult Development towards What End? A Philosophical Analysis of the Concept as Reflected in the Research, Theory, and Practice of Human Resource Development:
TL;DR: In this article, three alternative views of adult development serve to distinguish competing schools of thought, each rooted in different philosophical and political traditions: the person-centered view aims at self-realization of the individual and is grounded in humanistic psychology and liberalism; the productioncentered view focuses on organizational goals and is based on behaviorism and libertarianism; and the definition of development as principled problem-solving is grounded on cognitive psychology, progressivism, and pragmatism.
A History of the American Summerhill Movement: 1916-1971
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that if the film inspector noticed either blurred copy because of movement during exposure, or duplicate copy, they will find a good image of the page in the adjacent frame, unless we meant to delete copyrighted materials that should not have been filmed.