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Dartington in Conisbrough by Pat Kitto

A staff member’s account of a progressive experiment in a mining town when the school leaving age was raised in 1972, with an afterword by Michael Duane.
'Pat Kitto's book should be compulsory reading for Michael Gove's new radicals. . . . In this wonderful, relevant book the voice of the young person is strong and clear.'

Stephen Jones, former head of Totnes King Edward VII Community College

ISBN 978 0 9551647 1 2 £8.95

 

 

Worlds Apart by David Gribble

Summerhill and Sands School are contrasted with traditional schools in corresponding extracts from their prospectuses and the words of their pupils and in a number of contrasting photographs.

 

Book of the week in the Times Educational Supplement, March 17 2001

ISBN 978-0-9551647-0-5 £8.95

 

Lifelines by David Gribble

‘Books such as this test fundamental beliefs. Do we belong to the libertarian idealistic left . . . or the Gradgrind disciplinarian right? . . .Gribble has spent the past 10 years or so seeking out examples worldwide to prove that the Summerhill approach would work for disadvantaged youngsters.’

Tim Brighouse

Book of the week in the Times Educational Supplement, January 21, 2005

Libertarian Education, 2004, £8.95
ISBN 0-9513997-9-9

 

 

Leave me Alone by Joanna Stephanie Gore

Joanna Gore spent three months in a school experiencing what the children experience on a day-to-day level – such things as endless lining up, eating dinner, sitting with 'back straight, hands on head, bottoms on the floor', playing in the sand, having her hair pulled and sneaking sherbet in assembly. She shows how children find ingenious, playful, creative and effective ways to resist and so get to play a part in social change.

ISBN 0-9513997-8-0

 

 

Inspecting the Island by Hylda Sims


‘This is a powerful narrative of self-discovery, love and drama as well as an exploration of the lives of free children based on the author's experience as a pupil of A S Neill's Summerhill School.’

Ben Ball

Published by Seven-Ply Yarns in association with Lib Ed
ISBN 0-9538797-0-4 - £7.99

 

 

A Really Good School by David Gribble

‘This highly original satire of controlled, frequently Swiftian savagery, is a completely gripping and logically impeccable story of mass murder which is often, you’ll be surprised to discover, very funny.’

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Published by Seven-Ply Yarns in association with Lib Ed
ISBN 0-953-8797-1-2 £7.99

 

Free School: The White Lion Experience by Nigel Wright

White Lion Street Free School, which opened in 1972 in Islington, North London, is Britain’s best known and longest-surviving free school. Despite enormous public interest in the school, no-one has ever attempted an assessment of it. Free School: The White Lion Experience starts to fill this gap. How did the children use the freedom the school gave them? What did they learn there? Was it really democratic? What were the successful features of the school? Did it work? These are some of the questions addressed by Nigel Wright.

 

ISBN 0-9513997-1-3 £4.95

 

 

The Dredd Phenomenon by John Newsinger

Are comics just kids’ stuff, or are they a window onto our troubled times? In this book, John Newsinger examines 2000 AD and the Judge Dredd strip and asks why it is that the most popular comic strip character in Britain is an authoritarian neo-fascist. He goes on to look at the writers 2000 AD has nurtured: Alan Moore, Peter Milligan, Gran Morrision, Garth Ennis and others, and at their impact in America. Comics like Hellblazer, The Preacher from Hell and The Invisibles are at the cutting edge, he argues. They shine light in dark places.

ISBN 0-9513997-7-2 £5.95

 

 

Real Education:Varieties of Freedom by David Gribble

‘The book is readable and inspiring . . . In England, America, Japan, India, Germany and Ecuador Gribble finds the same essential recognition that no one can do children’s growing up for them.’

Chris Shute, Education Now, Autumn 1998.

Book of the week in the Times Educational Supplement, July 3rd 1998.

ISBN 0-9513997-5-6 £8.95

 

 

No Master High or Low: Libertarian Education and Schooling in Britain 1890-1990 by John Shotton

Brief accounts of forty-eight variously libertarian schools are divided into five groups - schools and Sunday Schools 1890-1930, private schools, schools for the unschoolable, libertarian schools inside the state system, and the Free School Movement 1960-1990. Introductions and conclusions to each section link the whole into a coherent, stimulating history.

ISBN 0-9513997-3-X £7.95

 

 

Play

This compilation on the subject of play includes contributions from Colin Ward, Lois Holzman of the Barbara Taylor School in New York, John Potter who writes about Kinokuni Children's Village in Japan, and Sarah Loufti who was still at school, as well as much else.

ISBN 0-9513997-4-8 £3.95