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... > social science subjects > sociology > sociology of education > education in society and culture > organizations, schools, and institutions > Summerhill
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Summerhill  

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  • Summerhill, a pioneering experiment in progressive, democratic education founded in 1921 by A. S. Neill, is a coeducational boarding and day school located in Suffolk, England, directed today by Zoe Readhead, Neill's daughter. Begun as part of an international school called the Neue Schule near Dresden, Germany, the school soon moved to a castle on top of a mountain near Sonntagsberg in Austria, and in 1923 to the town of Lyme Regis in the south of England, to a house called Summerhill. [Source: Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies; Summerhill]

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