Summerhill School. Summerhill School is an independent British boarding school that was founded in 1921 by Alexander Sutherland Neill with the belief that the school should be made to fit the child, rather than the other way around.
It is run as a democratic community; the running of the school is conducted in the school meetings, which anyone, staff or pupil, may attend, and at which everyone has an equal vote. These meetings serve as both a legislative and judicial body. Members of the community are free to do as they please, so long as their actions do not cause any harm to others, according to Neill's principle "Freedom, not Licence. " This extends to the freedom for pupils to choose which lessons, if any, they attend.
Alfie Kohn - Children and altruism. Alfie Kohn - The (Alternative) Schools Our Kids Deserve - 2011 MAAP Conference. Aflie Kohn math. Moral Development - Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development. Moral development is a major topic of interest in both psychology and education.
One of the best known theories was developed by psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg who modified and expanded upon Jean Piaget's work to form a theory that explained the development of moral reasoning. Piaget described a two-stage process of moral development, while Kohlberg's theory of moral development outlined six stages within three different levels.