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Kilquhanity School was one of several free schools to have been established in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century. Others include
Official web siteAlternative school to reopen
BBC News channel, March 23, 2009
Unique school re-opens
(''Dumfries and Galloway Standard'' article, March 25, 2009) {{Portal bar, Education, England, Schools Boarding schools in Dumfries and Galloway Democratic education 1940 establishments in Scotland Educational institutions established in 1940 Educational institutions disestablished in 1997 1997 disestablishments in Scotland
Kilquhanity School was one of several free schools to have been established in the United Kingdom in the twentieth century. Others include Sands School
Sands School is a democratic school in Ashburton, Devon in England.
Background
Sands School is the second democratic school in England which was started in 1987 by a group of students and teachers from the recently closed Dartington Hall Sch ...
in Devon, Summerhill in Suffolk, Sherwood School in Epsom and Kirkdale School in London.
The school was founded by John Aitkenhead (1910-1998) and his wife Morag in 1940. It was closed in 1997. It was located in a classical mansion house designed by the architect Walter Newall
Walter Newall (3 April 1780 – 25 December 1863) was a Scottish architect and civil engineer, born at Doubledyke in the parish of New Abbey in the historic county of Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. He was the leading architect in the Dumfries a ...
near the town of Kirkpatrick Durham in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Galloway
Galloway ( ; sco, Gallowa; la, Gallovidia) is a region in southwestern Scotland comprising the historic counties of Wigtownshire and Kirkcudbrightshire. It is administered as part of the council area of Dumfries and Galloway.
A native or ...
. The school was reopened under head teacher and former pupil Andrew Pyle, with the support of a Japanese educational organisation Kinokuni Children's Village Schools (headed by Shinichiro Hori) which now owns the premises. The first intake of 12 pupils was expected in 2013. A previous attempt to reopen in 2009 failed to attract a financially viable number of pupils.
The school was visited in 1941 by the refugee Polish Jewish artist Jankel Adler
Jankel Adler (born Jankiel Jakub Adler; 26 July 1895 – 25 April 1949) was a Polish Jewish painter and printmaker.
Biography
Jankiel Jakub Adler was born as the seventh of ten children in Tuszyn, a suburb of Łódź. In 1912 he began training ...
who had been evacuated to Glasgow. The poet W S Graham, who had earlier helped him translate an article on Paul Klee in Glasgow was working here at the time. He spent New Year 1942 here, Christopher Murray Grieve (''Hugh MacDiarmid'') whose son Michael was a pupil here, was also present.
Philosophy
The philosophy of Kilquhanity was heavily influenced by the writing and ideas of A. S. Neill, who founded Summerhill School, where Aitkenhead had worked; essentially that children learn best with freedom from coercion ("free-range").Further reading
* ''The Education Revolution'' #32 Spring/Summer 2001 (the magazine of the Alternative Education Resource Organization). * Various authors. ''Summerhill: For and Against'', a collection of essays, arguing both in favour and against Summerhill's (and Kilquhanity's) approach. * A.S. Neill. ''Summerhill''. A book about the school and its philosophy, by the school's founder.See also
* Free schools (disambiguation) *Democratic school
Democratic education is a type of formal education that is organized democratically, so that students can manage their own learning and participate in the governance of their school. Democratic education is often specifically emancipatory, with ...
*Collaborative learning
Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together.Dillenbourg, P. (1999). Collaborative Learning: Cognitive and Computational Approaches. Advances in Learning and Instruction Series. New ...
References
External links
Official web site
BBC News channel, March 23, 2009
Unique school re-opens
(''Dumfries and Galloway Standard'' article, March 25, 2009) {{Portal bar, Education, England, Schools Boarding schools in Dumfries and Galloway Democratic education 1940 establishments in Scotland Educational institutions established in 1940 Educational institutions disestablished in 1997 1997 disestablishments in Scotland