Dons and Workers - Oxford and Adult Education since 1850 (Hardcover, New)

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

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1995
First published:	February 1996
Authors:	Lawrence Goldman (Fellow and Tutor in Modern History)
Dimensions:	242 x 164 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-820575-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Social sciences > Education > Higher & further education > Adult education Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-19-820575-9
Barcode:	9780198205753

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