Little Commonwealth

{{short description|School in Dorset, 1910s}}

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The Little Commonwealth was a school run by Homer Lane in Dorset during the 1910s known for its permissive libertarian approach to education.

Bibliography

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  • {{Cite book |last1=Bazeley |first1=Elsie Theodora |title=Homer Lane and the Little Commonwealth |date=1948 |language=English |edition=2nd |publisher=George Allen & Unwin |location=London |oclc=6361 |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite journal |last1=Kleinbard |first1=Peter |last2=Manley |first2=John L. |title=Rev. of Talks to Parents and Teachers by Homer Lane; Homer Lane and the Little Commonwealth by E. T. Bazeley |journal=Harvard Educational Review |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=153–158 |date=April 1970 |url=http://hepgjournals.org/doi/abs/10.17763/haer.40.1.w605r70340107502 |doi=10.17763/haer.40.1.w605r70340107502 |issn=0017-8055 |df=mdy-all |url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite journal |last1=Nichol |first1=Lois |title=Reviewed Works: Talks to Parents and Teachers by Homer Lane; Homer Lane and the Little Commonwealth by E. T. Bazeley |journal=Elementary English |volume=47 |issue=7 |pages=1010–1011 |date=November 1970 |issn=0013-5968 |jstor=41387736 |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite web |last1=Shaw |first1=Robert |title='Homer Lane and the Little Commonwealth' by Elsie Bazeley - The therapeutic care journal published by The National Centre for Therapeutic Residential and Foster Care |work=The Therapeutic Care Journal |url=http://www.childrenwebmag.com/child-care-history-policy/homer-lane-and-the-little-commonwealth-by-elsie-bazeley |access-date=2015-07-31 |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Brehony |first1=Kevin J. |editor-last1=Göhlich |editor-first1=Michael |editor-last2=Hopf |editor-first2=Caroline |editor-last3=Tröhler |editor-first3=Daniel |chapter=The genesis and disappearance of Homer Lane's Little Commonwealth: A Weberian analysis |title=Persistenz und Verschwinden. Persistence and Disappearance |pages=237–253 |date=2008 |language=en |isbn=978-3-531-15977-5 |publisher=VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften |doi=10.1007/978-3-531-91125-0_18 |chapter-url=http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-531-91125-0_18 |df=mdy-all }}
  • {{Cite book |last1=Shotton |first1=John |chapter=Free to Work or Loaf: The Little Commonwealth (Flowers Farm, Evershot, Dorset, 1913–1918) |pages=135–137|title=No Master High or Low: Libertarian Education and Schooling in Britain 1890-1990 |date=1993 |language=English |isbn=978-0-9513997-3-6 |publisher=Libertarian Education |location=Bristol |df=mdy-all }}

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Category:Schools in Dorset

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