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Risinghill: Death of a Comprehensive School

By Leila Berg
Penguin Books, 1968

Risinghill, under its headmaster Michael Duane, was one of the first secondary schools in Britain to introduce progressive methods.

The School that I'd like

By Edward Blishen
Penguin Books, 1969

The views of school students in the 1960s.

Dartington Hall

By Victor Bonham-Carter

Most of this book is about the Dartington Estate, but it has a wonderful 30 pages or so at the end about Dartington Hall School, by W. B. Curry

SBN 9500133 9 0

Let Our Children Learn

By Tony Brown, Michael Foot and Peter Holt, Education Now, 2001

What happened when three retired teachers went back to a primary school to work with the children as they used to before the
UK government began introducing "reforms".

ISBN 1871526 49 3

The School I'd Like

By Catherine Burke and Ian Grosvenor

A new book of contributions from children who entered a competition in the Guardian newspaper for ideas about their ideal school in 2004. There is rather too much commentary from the compilers.

(the Catherine Burke one) – ISBN 0415 30115 7

Education for Sanity

By W. B. Curry

A book about Dartington Hall School by the man who set it up. Published in the 1930s and unfortunately almost unobtainable.
Perhaps you could get it from Amazon.

Dumbing us Down, the Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

By John Taylor Gatto
New Society Publishers, 4527 Springfield Avenue, PA 19143, USA

ISBN 0 86571 131 X

The Sudbury Valley School Experience
Free at Last

Or any books about Sudbury Valley School, by Dan Greenberg

Obtainable from Sudbury Valley School, 2 Winch Street, Framingham, MA 1701, USA

Real Education: Varieties of Freedom
Schule im Aufbruch (German translation)

By David Gribble
Obtainable from www.libed.org.uk, with payment by Paypal

ISBN 0 9513997 5 6

Lifelines

By David Gribble
Obtainable from www.libed.org.uk, with payment by Paypal

ISBN 0 9513997 9 9

Worlds Apart

By David Gribble
Obtainable from www.libed.org.uk, with payment by Paypal

ISBN 978 0 9551647 0 5

How Children Fail

Probably the best of many by John Holt

Published by Pelican Books in 1969, and probably often since

ISBN 0 201 48402 1

Dummheit ist lernbar

By Jürg Jegge

Jegge describes his work with young people thought to have been ineducable. Unfortunately not translated into English

ISBN 3 7296 0391 4

Angst macht krumm

By Jürg Jegge

Jegge describes his work with young people thought to have been ineducable. Unfortunately not translated into English

ISBN 3 499 17765 X

Your Competent Child

By Jesper Juul
ISBN 0-374-52790-3

Juul is a family therapist who is emphatically on the side of the child. The book was published originally in Denmark: the translation is published in America.

Am Anfang war Erziehung
For Your Own Good (English translation)

By Alice Miller

A thorough trouncing of authoritarian methods

ISBN 0 86068 899 2

Books about Summerhill by A. S. Neill, for instance:-

Summerhill (published by Hart in 1960)

That Dreadful School (Herbert Jenkins, 1937)

Hearts Not Heads in the School (Herbert Jenkins, 1945)

Offener Unterricht

By Falko Peschel
ISBN 3-89676 759 3

A criticism of what Peschel sees as half-hearted measures to allow children to direct their own schooling, followed by a description and justification of a system known as open learning.

Freedom to Learn

By Carl Rogers and H. Jerome Freiberg: ISBN 0-02-403121-6

The bits by Carl Rogers are lovely, and the bits by H. Jerome Freiberg are not: it's easy to tell them apart.

The Enquiring Classroom

By Stephen Rowland
Published by the Falmer Press, about thirty years ago

A description of astonishing child-directed work in an British primary school in the 1970s.

The Countesthorpe Experience

Edited by John Watts
ISBN 004 373003 5 or 004 373004 3

A collection of articles about what was probably the most important state school experiment ever for secondary students in the UK

Erziehung zum Sein

By Rebeca Wild
ISBN 3 924195 03 X

The story of the Pestalozzi School in Ecuador

Sein zum Erziehen

By Rebeca Wild
ISBN 3 924195 08 0

The story of the Pestalozzi School in Ecuador

The Barns Experiment

By David Wills
P ublished by Allen and Unwin

Describes Wills' work with deprived children in Scotland during the second world war

Important book and unfortunately virtually unobtainable - except possibly second-hand?

Throw Away Thy Rod

By David Wills
Published by Gollancz

A description the school for problem children that he ran in London after the war.

Another important book and unfortunately virtually unobtainable - except possibly second-hand?

Antipädagogik

Ekkehard von Braunmühl,

ISBN 978-3-9810444-3-0

or any other books by von Braunmühl, obtainable (in German only) from
http://www.tologo.de

Beyond Learning: Democratic Education for a Human Future

by Gert J. J. Biesta
published by Paradigm Publishers,

ISBN 978-1-59451-234-6

Professor Biesta provides a philosophical justification for democratic education, even though he does not seem to have had any practical experience of it.