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Aylesbury Revisited
Outreach in the 1980s
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Foreword by Dan Taubman More titles on the History of Adult
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The Aylesbury Report was first published in 1981, the result of an action research project in a large housing estate in South East London. It documents an almost unique moment in the history of adult education in England - when a local education authority gave licence to at least a few of its employees to question, criticise and experiment with some of its policies and practices in delivering adult education, in an attempt to do things differently. The Inner London Education Authority (ILEA), who commissioned the original report, was not keen to publish it, and it was eventually published by Southwark Adult Education, hence the almost clandestine and underground distribution of the Report. This new edition, with a Foreword by one of the original authors, gives an opportunity for reflection at a time of great change in the management of adult education policy.
While the language has moved on over the 20 years since its publication, the issues the Report addresses have not. Key current debates which the Aylesbury Report illuminates include the following:
 | The pressures and actual work of outreach. |
| Providers' relationships with voluntary organisations. |
| What it means to "consult the community" . |
| Community education workers as professionals - whose side are they on?. |
| How are needs assessed?. |
| The tension between learner-focused and centralised bureaucracies. |
| Staff development and training. |
In reading the Aylesbury Report, adult education workers will discover that they are part of a continuum of developments in progressive and radical adult education stretching back over a hundred years, and draw strength for current and future work.
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Reviews
‘It is fascinating to read the details of who did what and how…an historical
document that is still inspirational”
(Stevie Rosso, Raising Quality and Achievement Newsletter)
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Contents
| Foreword | By Dan Taubman, National Officer (Education) NATFHE | ||||
| Chapter 1 | The Aylesbury Project in the context of previous concepts of in-service training for ILEA community education workers | ||||
| Chapter 2 | The design of the Project | ||||
| Chapter 3 | Summary of visits and interviews carried out | ||||
| Chapter 4 | Recommendations a) to the host Institute b) to the ILEA | ||||
| Chapter 5 | Action Research: Guidelines for project evaluation by the host Institute; Personal evaluations by participating workers | ||||
| Chapter 6 | What has happened since the Project?
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| Chapter 7 | The history of ILEA outreach | ||||
| Chapter 8 | An advisory unit for community education | ||||
| Chapter 9 | Theoretical models of community education | ||||
| Chapter 10 | The unease of the outreach worker | ||||
| Chapter 11 | Fears of violence - an adult education response | ||||
| Chapter 12 | Workers' visit to Denmark | ||||
| Appendices | |||||
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