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Lib Ed - archive of reviews
January 2012
Two new journals dealing with alternative education are to be launched in the UK this year.
Too much too soon, an OpenEYE publication edited by Richard House
September 2011
After Summerhill, by Hussein Lucas: review by Lib Ed
May 2011
Jamie’s Dream School: Channel 4
January 2011
Dartington in Conisbrough, by Pat Kitto: review by Martin Mulkeen
October 2010
Children don’t start Wars
by David Gribble: review by Richard Seebohm
Turning Points
edited by Jerry Mintz and Carlo Ricci: review by Lib Ed
Dartington in Conisbrough
By Pat Kitto: review by Stephen Jones
Real Education
By David GribbleReviewed by Virginia Makins, The Times Educational Supplement
January 2010
A Good Childhood
by Richard Layard and Judy Dunn
October 2009
Toxic Schooling: How Schools Became Worse
by Clive Harber
September 2008
The Dragonfly Pool
by Eva Ibbotson
September 2007
Beyond learning: democratic education for a human future
Gert J. J. Biesta, Paradigm Publishers, £18.99
A philosophical argument for a type of education which has long depended on personal feeling and practical experience for its justification.
June 2007
Democratic Schools
Jan Gabbert € 10.00 from http://en.democraticschools.com/order/ or, in the USA, http://www.educationrevolution.org/demdocumentary.html.A film consisting mostly of intervews at the Berlin IDEC in 2005.
Pretty Cool System
Krätzä € 10.00 from http://en.democratic-schools.com/order/The democratic school of Hadera, seen through the eyes of a group of young people from Germany
Pesta
Leonardo Wild € 29.90The Pesta, a school in Ecuador, was one of the most extreme examples of a school where adults avoided influencing children's learning.
What Age can you Start being an Artist
Room 13 £12 from http://www.room13scotland.com/The film the children from Caol Primary School made for Channel 4.
Sands School
Luke Flegg: £7 from theflegg@gmail.com
An ex-pupil's impression.
November 2006
Inspiring Schools: Taking up the Challenge of Pupil Participation
Professor Lynn Davies, Dr Christopher Williams and Hiromi Yamashita with Ko Man-Hing, Available to download from http://www.esmeefairbairn.org.uk/
Summerhill and A.S.Neill
Edited by Mark Vaughan with contributions by Zoë Neill Readhead, Tim Brighouse and Ian Stronach Open University Press, £18.99
Shattered Lives
Camila Batmanghelidjh Jessica Kingsley Publishers, £13.99These are the lives of the London children who the rest of us prefer to despise, evict, punish or ignore.
June 2006
Worlds Apart
David Gribble Libertarian Education, £8.95The two worlds in question are traditional schools, on the one hand, and Summerhill and Sands School on the other.
January 2006
A Dorset Utopia: The Little Commonwealth and Homer Lane
Judith Stinton Black Dog Books, £11.95
July 2005
Inspecting the Island
Hylda Sims Seven-ply Yarns, £8.95The Summerhill novel, as it is called, gives an inside picture of the school in story full of suspense. Hylda Sims is an ex-pupil.
Lifelines
David Gribble Libertarian Education, £8.95David Gribble writes of four institutions that prove that freedom in education is not only for the privileged.
March 2005
A Really Good School
David Gribble Seven-Ply Yarns, £7.99A murder story in which the worst school imaginable tries to justify its practices.
Let our Children Learn
Tony Brown, Michael Foot and Peter Holt Education Now, £8.95A fascinating account of what happened when three retired teachers with supposedly "old-fashioned" ideas worked together for two days in a primary school.
Leave me Alone
Joanna Gore Libertarian Education, £6.95Joanna, as an adult, spent three months in a primary school in the role of a child. What she found out was both predictable and astonishing.
Revolution within
Sammy Kunina Praxis, £8Sammy Kunina has a passionately libertarian approach to parenting.
The School I'd Like
Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor Routledge-Falmer £16.99The Guardian newspaper invited children to tell them about the school they would like, and this book tells of their responses.
October 1993
No Master High or Low - Libertarian education and schooling in Britain 1890-1990
by John Shotton
Review by David Gribble
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