A Ministry of Enthusiasm - Centenary Essays on the Workers' Educational Association

Informationen zum Autor Stephen K. Roberts is a researcher at the History of Parliament Trust and a frequent contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . He is the editor of A Ministry of Enthusiasm (Pluto Press, 2003). Klappentext A critical and deeply informed survey of the brave new world of UK Higher Education emerging from government cuts and market-driven reforms. Zusammenfassung A study into the nature of modern adult education Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Brief Chronology of the WEA; Stephen K. Roberts - Introduction; 1. Bernard Jennings - The WEA - the Foundation and the Founder; 2. Sean Creighton - Battersea and the Formation of the Workers' Educational Association; 3. Lawrence Goldman - The First Students in the Workers' Educational Association Individual Enlightenment and Collective Advance; 4. Meredith Kwartin Rusoff - R. H. Tawney and the WEA; 5. Stephen K. Roberts - The Evolution of the WEA in the West Midlands - 1905-26; 6. Bernard Jennings - The Friends and Enemies of the WEA; 7. John Atkins - 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' The National Association and Internationalism 1918-1939; 8. John Field - Survival! Growth and Retreat the WEA in Wartime - 1939-45; 9. John Holford - Unions! Adult Education and Post-War Citizenship the WEA and the Construction of Trade Union Education; 10. Rob Duncan - Ideology and Provision the WEA and the Politics of Workers' Education in Early Twentieth Century Scotland; 11. Richard Lewis - The WEA and Workers' Education in Early Twentieth Century Wales; 12. Zoe Munby - Women's Involvement in the WEA and Women's Education; 13. Derek Tatton - Literature! Cultural Studies and the WEA; 14. Peter Caldwell and Stephen K. Roberts - From Day Release to Lifelong Learning Workplace Education and the WEA after 1964; 15. Julia Jones - WEA Values in the Twenty-First Century WEA Voices; Index ...

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• Authors: Tony Blair, Stephen K. Roberts, Stephen K. (EDT) Roberts
• Assisted by: Stephen K. Roberts (Editor), Steven K. Roberts (Editor), Roberts Stephen K. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2003
• EAN: 9780745319087
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-1908-7
• No. of pages: 326
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Adult education; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, 20th Century, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Trade Unions, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, Adult education, continuous learning, Social groups: clubs & societies, Social groups: clubs and societies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / Unions