Hanging around, pottering about, chilling out: lessons on silence and well-being from Summerhill School
Lees, Helen E. (2016) Hanging around, pottering about, chilling out: lessons on silence and well-being from Summerhill School. Revista Hipótese, 3 (2). pp. 192-210. ISSN 2446-7154
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    Abstract
This paper highlights moments of the doing of “nothing much” as beneficial and educative as pedagogy for all schools. It uses Summerhill School, Suffolk, UK as an example of a school where chosen silence of a cumulative, positive, “strong” kind is valued – in the form of children choosing to hang about, potter about, chill out - and which as a school has this facilitation of the doing of nothing much to teach to other school settings.
| Item Type: | Article | 
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Education > Department of Education, Multi-professional Practice and Early Childhood | 
| Depositing User: | Jane Faux | 
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2016 12:16 | 
| Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2025 11:26 | 
| URI: | https://newman.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/14458 | 
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