After Summerhill
by Hussein Lucas

 A. S. Neill (left), the founder of Summerhill School was the doyen of the alternative educational movement. From its beginnings in prewar Germany through to the present, no pupil has ever been required to attend a lesson. His radical ideas are still being applied in schools all over the world and his educational theory has long been a component of mainstream teacher training. Hussein Lucas spent 10 years researching this highly original and fascinating study, where he traces, through interviews, what happened to the pupils of Britain's most controversial school, from its origins in 1929 through to the present. The interviews also cover what the school was like at different stages of its history and how it changed in the face of new challenges and forces.
Publication scheduled for October 2007