Living with the Summerhill tribe

Article Abstract:

At Summerhill school in Suffolk, England the children there can attend lessons as and when they like and can tell the teachers what they think of them. Harriet Gordon and Peter Getzel have recently completed a documentary for Channel 4 at the school. The film illustrates the appalling situation there and the way the children are wasting precious time. The founder of the 70-year-old school A S Neil thought children were wise and good but their behaviour when left to their own devices is shown here to be quite the opposite.

Social aspects, Social policy, Discipline of children, Child discipline, School management and organization, School administration

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Africa's white tribe

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South Africa's Boer country is now beginning to attract visitors, even though it has negative associations with white minority rule. Boer history is particularly visible in the hill country of Mpumalanga, where Boer farmers fled from British rule in Cape during the 1830s and imposed their will on the African locals. Information for tourists still focuses on Boer history, and very little attention is given to black South African culture.

History, South Africa, Description and travel, Afrikaners

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Scientists and missionaries fall out over epidemic that decimated Amazon tribe

Article Abstract:

Scientific research in indigenous parts of Venezuela has been called into question by claims by Patrick Tierney that US scientists were responsible for a measles epidemic in the 1960s that had a devastating impact on Yanomami Indians.

Health aspects, Venezuela, South American native peoples, Native South Americans, Yanomamos

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