by A. S. Neill · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707103345
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«Libres enfants de Summerhill» is the educational essay by A. S. Neill, published by Maspero in paperback (326 pages, in French).
The work explains the experience of Summerhill School, founded in the 1920s, and the philosophy of its headmaster: self-management, weekly assemblies with equal voting rights, and children's freedom to decide whether to attend classes. Neill rejects the traditional school and starts from the child's innate goodness, defending an education based on respect and autonomy.
Part of the series «Textes à l'appui: Série pédagogique». Translated from English by Micheline Laguilhomie, with a foreword by Maud Mannoni. It brings together material from four earlier works by Neill.
Recommended for educators, students of pedagogy, and parents interested in alternative schools and in the debate on children's rights.
Alexander Sutherland Neill was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philosophy of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance. Raised in Scotland, Neill taught at several schools before attending the University of Edinburgh in 1908–1912. He took two jobs in journalism before World War I, and taught at Gretna Green Village School in the second year of the war, writing his first book, A Dominie's Log (1915), as a diary of his life there as head teacher. He joined a Dresden school in 1921 and founded Summerhill on returning to England in 1924. Summerhill gained renown in the 1930s and then in the 1960s–1970s, due to progressive and counter-culture interest. Neill wrote 20 books. His top seller was the 1960 Summerhill, read widely in the free school movement from the 1960s.
