Dons and Workers
Oxford and Adult Education since 1850
Lawrence Goldman
Price: £72.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-820575-3
Publication date: 14 December 1995
392 pages, 19 plates, 234x156 mm
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| - '...a superb empirical study of a world of adult learning that has withered away,and yet, in its time, was vibrant.' - Linden West, Adults Learning p31
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| Description | | 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. Dons and Workers
is thus a contribution to the intellectual and political history of modern England, and
one that presents an unfamiliar portrait of 'elitist' Oxford and its influence in the nation.
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Readership: Scholars and students of 19th and 20th century intellectual history, labour history, the history of education, and of social and political history in Britain since 1850, especially those interested in the development of the working-class élite, 1870-1945.
| Authors, editors,
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Lawrence Goldman, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, St Peter's College, Oxford
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