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Dons and Workers - Oxford and Adult Education since 1850 (Hardcover, New)
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Dons and Workers - Oxford and Adult Education since 1850 (Hardcover, New)
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Dons and Workers is a history of university adult education since
its origins in the mid-Victorian period. It focuses on the
University of Oxford, which came to lead the movement for adult and
working-class education, and which imprinted it with a distinctive
set of social and political objectives in the early years of the
twentieth century. It is also a study of the relationship between
intellectuals and the working class, for it has been through the
adult education movement that many of the leading figures in
liberal and socialist thought have made contact with workers and
their institutions over the last century and a half. The effect of
adult education on such figures as T.H. Green, Arnold Toynbee, R.H.
Tawney, G.D.H. Cole, William Temple, and Raymond Williams gives us
an insight into the evolution of ideas from late-Victorian
liberalism to twentieth-century socialism. Lawrence Goldman
considers the political divisions within working-class adult
education, and assesses the influence of this educational tradition
on the development of the labour movement. This book is intended
for scholars and students of 19th and 20th century intellectual
history, labour history, the history of
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