by A. S. Neill · FCE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437500454
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«Summerhill» is the essay on education by A. S. Neill, published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in paperback (302 pages, in Spanish).
Neill recounts his fifty years of experience running Summerhill school, an educational project where children's self-regulation replaces imposed discipline. Freedom, play, and criticism of repressive authority are its pillars; he trusts that the child's natural interest in life produces happy and balanced people.
«Summerhill» was originally published in 1960; this Spanish edition is from 1985. The translation from English is by Florentino M. Torner; the foreword is by Erich Fromm.
For educators, parents, and people interested in progressive pedagogy, child psychology, and the philosophy of education.
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.
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