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1st Edition

The Working Men's College and the Tradition of Adult Education

Edited By Tom Schuller, Richard Taylor Copyright 2024
206 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Working Men’s College (WMC) is the UK’s oldest continuously running adult education institution, and a very distinctive example of the British adult education tradition. This volume brings the history of the WMC up to date, following the 1954 centenary history by JFC Harrison. Contributions from a range of professional educators explore topics such as the philosophy of the College, the... Read more

Introduction
Tom Schuller and Richard Taylor

Part One

1. From FD Maurice and Christian Socialism to secular radicalism: continuities and differences
Richard Taylor

2. From benign neglect to narrow utilitarianism? Adult education policy since the Second World War and its impact on the College
Alan Tuckett

3. The College building: embodying the ethos
Susie Barson, Robin Bishop, David Brady and Alan Johnson

Part Two

4. The governance of the College: accountability, strategy and ethos
Tom Schuller

Appendix to chapter 4: Money matters
Bill Barker

Personal memoirs 1
Christine Buchanan and Norman Gilby

5. The educational context: the changing programme and curriculum of the College
Richard Taylor

Personal memoirs 2
Michael Johns and Susie Barson

6. Learning communities
Marj Mayo

7. Interview with Satnam Gill: leading the College into the twenty-first century
Tom Schuller

8. Interrupting the ‘fellowship’: women, equal opportunities and change at the WMC
Miriam Zukas and Lucy de Groot

Personal memoirs 3
Susan Mary Archer and Heather Niman

9. The Franklin family and the College, 1882 to 2017 and beyond
Nigel Franklin

Personal memoirs 4
Robert Solomon and Mark Guthrie

10. Fellow institutions: the College in relation to other SDIs
Jill Westerman and Mark Malcomson

Personal memoirs 5
Naeem Nisar and Nazma Rahman

Part Three

11. The ‘College tradition’ and future challenges
Tom Schuller and Richard Taylor

Biography

Tom Schuller chaired the Governing Board of the Working Men’s College from 2008 to 2018. He is a former Dean and Professor of Lifelong Learning at Birkbeck, University of London. His latest book is The Paula Principle: How and Why Women Lose Out At Work (2017).

Richard Taylor is Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge, and was Professor and Director of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning at the Universities of Cambridge and, before that, Leeds. His most recent book is English Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: A Distinctive Politics? (2020).

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