Author : J F C Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 47,72 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 1135031223
Originally published in 1961, the book charts the dynamics of successive phases of the adult education movement and shows the social origin and development of the ideas and attitudes of those involved with it.
Author : J. Jeffrey Robinson
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 30,66 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1612337058
An almost universal concern of the Victorian governing classes was with the question of social control: how to deflect a largely uneducated working class from their inevitable challenge to the centres of power, accepted value systems and existing authority structures. The fear in which the masses were held by the middle and upper classes came to dominate access to education or, more accurately, to what they defined as "useful knowledge," since this was designed to instil the values of a just and ordered society. Conversely for the working class, it would give them power; power over their own lives and in so-doing provide access to that social hierarchy currently valued by the governing minority. This book addresses the role of the providers of education alongside the responses of those for whom it was intended. It discusses the provision of educational initiatives and the frequent attenuation of their founding objectives. It assesses the utility of the strategies of power and control adopted by the providers in order to maintain an upper class ideology. Though evidence is discussed in a national context, it is supported by additional data from a rural county both for the purpose of comparative analysis and in order to add character and hear the true voice of the men and women involved.
Author : Joss Winn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 1474267602
Higher education in the UK is in crisis. The idea of the public university is under assault, and both the future of the sector and its relationship to society are being gambled. Higher education is increasingly unaffordable, its historic institutions are becoming untenable, and their purpose is resolutely instrumental. What and who have led us to this crisis? What are the alternatives? To whom do we look for leadership in revealing those alternatives? This book critically analyses intellectual leadership in the university, exploring ongoing efforts from around the world to create alternative models for organizing higher education and the production of knowledge. Its authors offer their experience and views from inside and beyond the structures of mainstream higher education, in order to reflect on efforts to create alternatives. In the process the volume asks: is it possible to reimagine the university democratically and cooperatively? If so, what are the implications for leadership not just within the university but also in terms of higher education's relationship to society? The authors argue that mass higher education is at the point where it no longer reflects the needs, capacities and longterm interests of global society. An alternative role and purpose is required, based upon 'mass intellectuality' or the real possibility of democracy in learning and the production of knowledge.
Author : Sharon Clancy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 3031359550
This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the development of eclectic and esoteric learning opportunities in arts, traditional crafts, culture and ecology. Embodying the spirit of a new national drive for optimism and enterprise in the post-war period, Trevelyan, and his contemporaries at other colleges, took risks and innovated in new pedagogical approaches to adult education, capturing the imagination of hundreds of students, before being stifled by an increasingly restrictive policy framework and financial strictures. The book considers the ideological drivers and tensions behind this unique form of education - its inception, evolution and virtual demise - and seeks to learn from its complex history to inform education in the future.
Author : Thomas Boylan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134920407
In a bitterly divided 19th century Ireland, consensus was sought in the new discipline of political economy which claimed to transcend all divisions. This book explores the failure of that mission in the wake of the great famine of 1846-7.
Author : John A. Blyth
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780719009037
Author : J. Paxton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1578 pages
File Size : 22,70 MB
Release : 2016-12-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0230270999
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : S. Steinberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1734 pages
File Size : 20,19 MB
Release : 2016-12-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023027093X
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Author : Peter Gurney
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,89 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719049507
This innovative, research-based book presents a positive critique of the co-operative alternative to emerging capitalist forms of mass consumption in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This alternative was embedded in the culture of the movement and Peter Gurney provides a full analysis of that culture - its strategy and ambition, social and educational forms, internationalism and historical consciousness.
Author : Barry P. Bright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,74 MB
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 0429791909
Originally published in 1989, this book presents a variety of perspectives on the definition of knowledge and of adult education, by leading authors and practitioners in the study of adult education in the UK and USA. This collection of different and often contradictory views makes a detailed analysis of the epistemology and practice of adult education. Three major views are reflected within the book, all of which focus upon the role of the conventional disciplines as a 'theoretical' basis for adult education curricula and professional practice.
