Finding a place for Forest School (1929-1940) in the history and future of education

• Autores: Polly Shields
• Localización: History of education researcher, ISSN 1740-2433, Nº. 83, 2009, págs. 31-41
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Forest School was a small, progressive school which operated during the 1930s.

    While the work of A. S. Neill at Summerhill and Homer Lane at his Little Commonwealth is well documented in the history of progressive education, there is scant mention of Forest School. That which there is includes the school as a footnote of the parent organization, the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry, part of the early twentieth-century 'Woodcraft Movement' which included the more well-known Woodcraft Folk' A single chapter in Van der Eyken's 1969 volume 'Adventures in Education' discusses the school; another chapter in a personal account of life in the New Forest by Jean Westlake, daughter of the school's founder, describes her farnily's relationship with the school. Without the archive of the school's successor, Forest School Camps, it is likely that the school would have been forgotten.