New Reflections on an Old Crisis: A Case Study from the 1980s.

Fordham, Paul

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ERIC Number: EJ543942

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Publication Date: 1997

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New Reflections on an Old Crisis: A Case Study from the 1980s.

Fordham, Paul

Studies in the Education of Adults, v29 n1 p51-67 Apr 1997

A review of the 1983 attempt to close the Department of Adult Education at the University of Southampton illuminates the debates over the nature of adult education, the end of political consensus about educational policy, and the demise of the "Great Tradition" of university liberal education in the process of mainstreaming extramural programs. (SK)

Descriptors: Adult Education, Departments, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Politics of Education, Program Termination, Public Policy

Publication Type: Reports - General; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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