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Click on a title to view the full article. ----- ARCHIVE OF REVIEWSMarch 2005A Really Good School: David Gribble A murder story in which the worst school imaginable tries to justify its practices. Let our Children Learn: Tony Brown, Michael Foot and Peter Holt A 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 Joanna, 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 Sammy Kunina has a passionately libertarian approach to parenting. The School I'd Like: Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor The Guardian newspaper invited children to tell them about the school they would like, and this book tells of their responses. July 2005Inspecting the Island: Hylda Sims The 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 David Gribble writes of four institutions that prove that freedom in education is not only for the privileged. January 2006A Dorset Utopia: The Little Commonwealth and Homer Lane: Judith Stinton June 2006 Worlds Apart: David Gribble The two worlds in question are traditional schools, on the one hand, and Summerhill and Sands School on the other. November 2006Inspiring Schools: Taking up the Challenge of Pupil Participation: Summerhill and A.S.Neill Shattered Lives: Camila Batmanghelidjh These are the lives of the London children who the rest of us prefer to despise, evict, punish or ignore. June 2007Various DVDsDemocratic Schools: Jan Gabbert A film consisting mostly of intervews at the Berlin IDEC in 2005. Pretty Cool System: Krätzä The democratic school of Hadera, seen through the eyes of a group of young people from Germany Pesta: Leonardo Wild The 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 The film the children from Caol Primary School made for Channel 4. Sands School : Luke Flegg: An ex-pupil's impression. September 2007Beyond 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.
The Dragonfly Pool, by Eva Ibbotson
October 2009 Toxic Schooling: How Schools Became Worse, by Clive Harber
January 2010 A Good Childhood, by Richard Layard and Judy Dunn
We are the People We've Been Waiting For, A film made by the Edge Foundation, under the guidance of Lord Puttnam.
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