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The Search for Enlightenment
The working class and adult education in the twentieth century
| Brian Simon ed. ISBN 1 87294 121 4 1992 More title on the History of Adult
Education |
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This distinguished collection of essays describes and seeks to analyse the relationship between adult education and the broader process of social change. The essays focus on two periods, the period from 1919 to 1945, and the post-war years to 1988.
Bodies such as the WEA, Ruskin College, the National Council of Labour Colleges and the Plebs League have all played their part in the education of working-class people. This book explores the trade unions’ role in adult education, the Marxist challenge to conventional schools of thought, the role and potential of adult education in a period of rapid social change and the contemporary challenges facing adult education, as well as providing local studies.
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Reviews
‘….important not only for students of the history of adult education but also
for others interested in the history of the British working class.’
(British Journal of Educational Studies)
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Contents
| Foreword | Jack Jones | |
| Introduction | Brian Simon | |
| Part 1. | 1909 - 1945 | |
| The struggle for hegemony, 1920-1926 | Brian Simon | |
| The spark of independent working class education | Edmund and Ruth Frow | |
| The Labour College movement between the wars: national and north-west developments | Margaret Cohen | |
| Revolutionary education revived: the communist challenge to the Labour Colleges, 1925-1944 | Margaret Cohen | |
| Bouts of suspicion: political controversies in adult education, 1925-1944 | Roger Fieldhouse | |
| Part 2. | 1945-1988 | |
| The demise of the national council of Labour Colleges | John McIlroy | |
| The triumph of technical training? | John McIlroy | |
| Trade union education for a change | John McIlroy | |
| The challenge to working class education | Bob Fryer | |
| Notes on contributors | ||
| Index |
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