by Alexander Sutherland Neill · FCE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788437500546
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«Autobiografía: Neill Neill! Orange Peel» is the autobiography of A. S. Neill, published by FCE in paperback (404 pages, in Spanish).
A. S. Neill, founder of Summerhill School and a leading figure in radical pedagogy, reviews in these memoirs the central episodes of his life and the evolution of his ideas on childhood education. With sardonic humor, he questions traditional teaching and sets out a vision of child development based on affection.
The Spanish edition was published in 1976; the English original appeared in 1972 under the title «Neill! Neill! Orange Peel! An Autobiography».
For readers interested in pedagogy, biographies of educators and the history of Summerhill School.
Alexander Sutherland Neill was a Scottish educator and author known for his school, Summerhill, and its philosophy of freedom from adult coercion and community self-governance. Raised in Scotland, Neill taught at several schools before attending the University of Edinburgh in 1908–1912. He took two jobs in journalism before World War I, and taught at Gretna Green Village School in the second year of the war, writing his first book, A Dominie's Log (1915), as a diary of his life there as head teacher. He joined a Dresden school in 1921 and founded Summerhill on returning to England in 1924. Summerhill gained renown in the 1930s and then in the 1960s–1970s, due to progressive and counter-culture interest. Neill wrote 20 books. His top seller was the 1960 Summerhill, read widely in the free school movement from the 1960s.
