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Direct linkGary McCulloch – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
The educational historian Brian Simon is well known for his portrayal of the social and political conflicts surrounding adult working-class education in 19th and early 20th-century England. However, the third and fourth volumes of his classic history of education in Britain, covering the period from 1920 to 1940 and 1940 to 1990 respectively,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Marxian Analysis, Educational History, Working Class
Fisher, Pamela; Fisher, Roy – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2007
This paper contrasts two types of "autodidact" located in the UK in different historical periods, which utilised different learning/research technologies to different ends. From the 1920s to the 1960s some working-class activists committed to the Communist Party of Great Britain became "educated" in Marxism (and more) through…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Educational Opportunities, Higher Education
Sunker, Heinz – Policy Futures in Education, 2006
National Socialism, the German type of fascism, is analysed in this article with respect to the question of its ideological foundations, the ideology of the "Volk" community, and its consequences for a relevant type of social practice, "Volk" welfare. Under National Socialism the form of state social work intervention was…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Social Control, Ideology, Social Work
