Summerhill

Duration: 27

Year Published: 1967

Creator: The Board

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Visits England's progressive school, Summerhill, founded by Alexander Neill forty-five years ago to prove that students can make decisions about their studies without lessening the quality of the education that they receive. , Views the educational process practiced at Summerhill, England, through candid comments by students as to what they feel the school offers and lacks. Notes that since the school's establishment in the early 1920s it has focused upon the development of the emotional aspect of the individual, with the attainment of subject competencies being left to the discretion of the students themselves. Observes that the school is free to the extent that the laws, as established by the students themselves, are not violated.

Complete Record: Visits England's progressive school, Summerhill, founded by Alexander Neill forty-five years ago to prove that students can make decisions about their studies without lessening the quality of the education that they receive. , Views the educational process practiced at Summerhill, England, through candid comments by students as to what they feel the school offers and lacks. Notes that since the school's establishment in the early 1920s it has focused upon the development of the emotional aspect of the individual, with the attainment of subject competencies being left to the discretion of the students themselves. Observes that the school is free to the extent that the laws, as established by the students themselves, are not violated.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.