The Legacy of A.S. Neill in Finland

Antu Sorainen; Sirkka Ahonen; Leena Eräsaari; Matti Eräsaari

The Legacy of A.S. Neill in Finland

Antu Sorainen, Sirkka Ahonen, Leena Eräsaari, Matti Eräsaari

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Abstract

This article looks first briefly on the history of education and the influence of A.S. Neill’s ideas in Finland, and then turns into a roundtable where three people – two mothers and one son – discuss their own experiences of the Summerhillian kindergarten in Finland, and the future of alternative education in the era of neo-liberalism.

Original language	English
Journal	Revista Hipótese
Volume	3
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	131-149
Number of pages	19
ISSN	2446-7154
Publication status	Published - 31 Oct 2016
MoE publication type	B1 Journal article

Bibliographical note

Antu Sorainen, born 1963, is a Docent and Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki. She is the moderator and translator of the discussion. She was never in kindergarten as her mother was a stay-home mother of four. Antu thinks that this early childhood history influenced her (anti)social skills and her quest for personal autonomy in her later life. Therefore, she is interested in concrete utopias and the conceptual changes in pedagogy and education.
Dr. Antu Sorainen, PhD, is an Academy Fellow and Docent in Gender Studies at the University of Helsinki. She has MA in Cultural Anthropology and Law. She studied queer legal history and co-authored a book on conceptual history of Sittlichkeit in Finland. She holds a Academy Fellowship for “Wills and Inheritance Practices in Sexually Marginalised Groups” (2014-2019) and won a major Academy grant to direct a research team “CoreKin – Contrasting and Re-Imagining Margins of Kinship” (2016-2020).
Email: [email protected]
Website: antusorainen.com
Project Website: CoreKin.fi
orcid.org/0000-0002-3956-8352

Fields of Science

6160 Other humanities
Alternative Pedagogy
Summerhill
Finnish history of education
Kindergartens
Queer
Roundtable
Lastenpaikka
Education history

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CoreKin: Contrasting and Re-imagining Margins of Kinship
Sorainen, A. (Project manager), Härkönen, H. (Participant), Moring, A. (Participant), Zhabenko, A. (Participant), Avdeeva, A. (Participant) & Heinonen, A. (Project manager)
NOS-HS
01/09/2016 → 31/08/2020
Project: Research project
Wills and Inheritance in Sexually Marginalised Groups - Academy of Finland Research Fellow 2014-2019
Sorainen, A. (Project manager)
Keele University
01/09/2014 → 24/08/2019
Project: Research project
Gender Studies Research Community
Elomäki, A. (Participant), Al-Sharmani, M. (Principal Investigator), Dahlgren, S. (Participant), Engelberg, M. (Participant), Haritaworn, J. (Principal Investigator), Holli, A. (Principal Investigator), Honkasalo, J. (Participant), Hoppania, H.-K. (Participant), Ihrche-Åberg, I. (Participant), Jokila, H. (Participant), Kalha, H. (Participant), Kantola, J. (Principal Investigator), Kinnarinen, K. (Participant), Kornak, J. (Participant), Korsisaari, E. M. (Participant), Koskinen, T. (Participant), Kuosmanen, P. K. (Participant), Kupari, H. (Participant), Leclin, J. (Participant), Moisala, P. (Principal Investigator), Moring, A. (Participant), Muravyeva, M. (Principal Investigator), Niemi, J. (Principal Investigator), Norocel, O. C. (Participant), Nousiainen, K. (Principal Investigator), Oikkonen, V. (Participant), Oroza, S. (Participant), Paasonen, S. (Participant), Pakkanen, J. (Participant), Palin, T. (Participant), Patosalmi, M. (Participant), Paunu, H. (Participant), Pulkkinen, T. (Project manager), Raevaara, E. (Participant), Ratinen, S. (Participant), Repo, J. (Participant), Roman-Lagerspetz, S. (Participant), Rossi, L.-M. (Principal Investigator), Rundgren, H. (Participant), Ruuskanen, M. (Participant), Saari, M. (Participant), Saarikangas, K. (Principal Investigator), Salmesvuori, P. (Participant), Saresma, T. A. M. (Principal Investigator), Sorainen, A. (Participant), Soronen, A. (Participant), Svanström, M. E. (Participant), Tsokkinen, A. (Participant), Tuomaala-Özdemir, S. (Participant), Tuomi, L. M. (Participant), Uimonen, M. (Participant), Urponen, M. (Participant), Urrio, E. (Participant), Utriainen, T. (Principal Investigator), Weide, M. (Participant), Werner, L. (Participant), Vuola, E. (Principal Investigator), Vänskä, A. (Participant) & Xu-Susiluoto, Q. (Participant)
01/03/2011 → 01/03/2011
Project: Research Evaluation 2011

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The Legacy of A.S. Neill in Finland

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Fields of Science

Access to Document

Projects

CoreKin: Contrasting and Re-imagining Margins of Kinship

Wills and Inheritance in Sexually Marginalised Groups - Academy of Finland Research Fellow 2014-2019

Gender Studies Research Community

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