Table of Contents

Preface by Mark Vaughan

Introduction by Tim Brighouse

‘Summerhill School’ by A. S. Neill

Summerhill today by Zoe Readhead-Neill

Inspection and justice: HMI and Summerhill School by Ian Stronach

Questions & Answers – A. S. Neill

Questions & Answers – Zoe Readhead-Neill

The A. S. Neill Summerhill Trust

Index

About the Author

Mark Vaughan OBE is Founder and Co-director of the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education (CSIE). Prior to this he followed a career in journalism and was Deputy News Editor for the TES, where he was the last journalist to interview Neill. He is co-editor, with Gary Thomas, of Inclusive Education: readings and reflections (Open University Press, 2004). Tim Brighouse is Commissioner for London Schools, and was formerly Chief Education Officer for Birmingham and for Oxfordshire, as well as Professor of Education, University of Keele. A. S. Neill was the Founder and Principal of Summerhill School and author of numerous books on education and child-rearing. Zoe Neill Readhead is the daughter of A. S. Neill and now Principal of Summerhill. She has written and spoken on the school widely in the UK and overseas. Ian Stronach is Research Professor of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University.