The Working Men's College and the Tradition of Adult Education (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Schuller, Tom; Taylor, Richard

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Working Men's College is the UK's oldest continuously running adult education institution, and a very distinctive example of the British adult education tradition. This volume brings the history of the WMC up to date, following the 1954 centenary history by JFC Harrison.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040090916
• Artikelnr.: 70568762

Autorenporträt

Tom Schuller chaired the Governing Board of the Working Men's College from 2008 to 2018. He is a former Dean and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London. His latest book is The Paula Principle: How and Why Women Lose Out At Work (2017). Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and was Professor and Director of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning at the Universities of Cambridge and, before that, Leeds. His most recent book is English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part One 1. From FD Maurice and Christian Socialism to secular
radicalism: continuities and differences 2. From benign neglect to narrow
utilitarianism? Adult education policy since the Second World War and its
impact on the College 3. The College building: embodying the ethos Part Two
4. The governance of the College: accountability, strategy and ethos.
Appendix to chapter 4: Money matters. Personal memoirs 1. 5. The
educational context: the changing programme and curriculum of the College.
Personal memoirs 2
6. Learning communities 7. Interview with Satnam Gill: leading the College
into the twenty-first century 8. Interrupting the 'fellowship': women,
equal opportunities and change at the WMC Personal memoirs 3. 9. The
Franklin family and the College, 1882 to 2017 and beyond. Personal memoirs
4. 10. Fellow institutions: the College in relation to other SDIs Personal
memoirs 5 Part Three 11. The 'College tradition' and future challenges