experimental methods

Author demonstrates how recent approaches in teaching can be used in the teaching of reading.

Presents the history and philosophy of Summerhill School, a boarding school in England, through extracts from the twenty published books and other materials by the founder of the school, A.S. Neill. Also includes a short autobiographical essay of Neill.

Discusses possible changes for the way teaching is done, exploring ways of moving away from "telling students what they are supposed to know." Examines letting the books and the students do the talking, separating power and authority, inquiring together, writing, and experiences that teach.

Presents a fictionalization of a real experiment at a California high school in which a history teacher started a fascist youth movement in an effort to show his students that the Holocaust could indeed happen again.