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Hargraves, Neil Kevin – History of Education, 2010
Newbattle Abbey College, Scotland's only adult residential college, was founded in the 1930s by Philip Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian. This paper traces the debates concerning the college and the rationale for adult residential education until the 1950s, focusing on the difficulties that Newbattle faced in establishing itself as a central part of…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Educational History, Educational Development
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Steele, Tom; Taylor, Richard Kenneth – History of Education, 2010
The influential policy work in education of the intellectual grouping formed by J. H. Oldham during the Second World War known as "Oldham's Moot" (1938-1947) has been discussed in recent publications. These have noted its general educational and university policy, its intellectual strengths, and the role of Sir Walter Moberly in relation to his…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Adult Education, Social Theories, Intellectual History
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Glotzer, Richard – History of Education, 2009
The Carnegie Corporation found its first great manager in Frederick Paul Keppel (1875-1943). Keppel's career is important to historians of education because interwar Carnegie initiatives, articulated through the Corporation's Dominions and Colonies Fund and Teachers College, Columbia University, internationalised American educational theories and…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Social Sciences, Corporate Support, Technical Assistance