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Freeman, Mark – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
This article -- the first part of a two-part contribution -- considers the current and past state of research on the history of adult education in Britain. Although there has been a broadening of interest among historians of adult education, the field remains to an extent in the shadow of the "Great Tradition" of liberal education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Historiography, Working Class
Freeman, Mark – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2020
This article -- the second part of a two-part contribution -- offers a number of suggested directions for the historiography of adult education in Britain. It identifies opportunities to address longstanding areas of neglect that have been overshadowed by a focus on the "Great Tradition" of adult education. Although a key theme of recent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational History, Historiography
Sutcliffe, Marcella P. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
This paper focuses on the reading and educational practices of common soldiers during the First World War. It argues that the question of how war libraries were imagined and constructed by civilians needs to be framed in the larger context of pre-war Edwardian debates surrounding the "value of books" in society. Indeed, it was within…
Descriptors: War, World History, Reading Habits, Educational Practices
Pruneri, Fabio – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2016
In 1945, Italian society was in crisis. Twenty years of fascism and the aerial bombing and military offensives of the Second World War had left the civilian population suffering and the nation in need of reinvention. In this difficult context, certain anti-fascist intellectuals devised the interesting pedagogical experiment of the 11 Convitti…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, War, Adult Education, World History
Fernández-Soria, Juan Manuel – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2015
This article focuses on the Workers' Institutes (WI), one of the most important educational initiatives undertaken by the Spanish Republic during the Civil War (1936-1939). After framing their creation within the context of European trends in higher education for the working classes and within the Spanish socio-political context, this article…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Higher Education, Adult Education
Rowe, Steven E. – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2010
This essay examines the formation, operation, and social effects of adult education classes in France during the nineteenth century. These classes were created and operated prior to the formation of France's national education system and were part of the expansion of primary schooling for the working class, or more generally for "the…
Descriptors: Working Class, Elementary Education, Adult Education, Social Stratification
Woodin, Tom – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
Since the early 1970s adult literacy projects and classes have developed and published student writing in the UK. Early practitioners responded to the dearth of suitable learning materials and aimed to nurture hidden voices "from below" through a democratic educational process. Based on reading student written publications as well as…
Descriptors: Student Publications, Adult Education, Literacy Education, Adult Literacy
Omolewa, Michael – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2007
This study attempts to draw attention to the hitherto neglected, but important, subject of how the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as a network and promoter of other networks, has sought to foster the spirit of cooperation, understanding and partnership among its various Member States through…
Descriptors: Organizations (Groups), Conferences, Workshops, Seminars