The Historical Study On Summerhill School In Britain

The Summerhill school of British was established by Neill in 1921,which is closing to one hundred year.As a product of the new educational movement in Europe,Summerhill school has always been eccentric and insisted the concept of freedom.This paper takes the historical development of Summerhill school as the research object,studying its background of the school founded,Neill and the establishment of the Summerhill,the school of Neill’s time,the school after Neill and the historical significance and contemporary value of it.The paper analyses the establishment and development of Summerhill school and records the changing and unchanging of it from the practice.By introducing the school of Neill’s time and after to trace the relation of its history and the current.In background,it mainly analyses the social and educational.In establishment,it focuses on Neill’s idea into educational experiment.The paper also elucidates the specific school education of Neill’s time and after.At last,it discusses the significance and value of Summerhill school in the process of historical development,and simply analyses the predicament of Summerhill school combining the current educational policy and the background.