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Wonderful display put together by Robin Stocks (email in the photo) on Eddie Collins, South Yorkshire IWW member & militant. @wrkclasshistory this is up your street! Robin is looking for info about who is in the photos here? Were they IWW meetings/other events? #WorkingClassEd19
There is a critical potential within current formal adult education. Free structure of access courses and flexibility over forms of assessment allow scope for some forms of radical education and learning whilst gaining qualification/progression to HE. @sherenejm #workingclassed19
Rob Hindle: Thompson's report on The Field of Study for WEA classes. #WorkingClassEd19
WEA Yorkshire District 6th Annual Report: must resist crystalisation 'into groups of self-centred self-satisfied students and tutors'. Robin Hindle. (This feels highly relevant to the Corbyn left!) #workingclassed19
Saltburn Yorkshire WEA summer schools, George Thompson, regional sec: "Workers will only achieve emancipation when they are capable of thinking out issues for themselves and have the capacity & sufficient tolerance to achieve the ends collectively." Rob Hindle #WorkingClassEd19
Emphasis on the skills agenda threatens the existence of the WEA b/c 84% of our courses are non-accredited. Rob Hindle #workingclassed19
"Everything's now opened up, and I was stuck in this job doing what a chimpanzee could do" (Male student, Ruskin). Empowering role of remaining labour education institutions. @clancy_sharon #WorkingClassEd19
"What happens to a society, rigidly class bound that uses continually the language of equality?" #StuartHall being quoted by @clancy_sharonat at #WorkingClassEd19
@clancy_sharon of the @LongRevolution talking about Raymond Williams ideas abt adult education. #WorkingClassEd19
@clancy_sharon talking about how badly universities do community engagement. Their absolute disregard for the communities in which they work. Loss of extra-mural depts a major setback. #workingclassed19
Namibian and South African miners came to Northern College in 1980s. Incredible power of international solidarity and working-class education! #workingclassed19
'One of the reasons the chapels declined was that we didn't have to go to chapel to have a bloody good row!' One of the reasons chapels declined in Wales was the arrival of adult education classes. Richard Lewis at #WorkingClassEd19
After closure of the Central Labour College, CPGB (who had opposed the CLC) started to send their activists to Lenin School in Moscow. In Wales, the Coleg Harlech opened almost simultaneously with closure of Central Labour College. Richard Lewis #WorkingClassEd19
Richard Lewis talking about the importance of Noah Ablett to working-class education and labour activism. https://t.co/ThKCUYksQE #histed #histedchat #criticaled #WorkingClassEd19
Of the 17 Labour MP's of S Wales in 1945, 8 were graduates of the Central Labour College and 3 went on to be ministers. Richard Lewis #workingclassed19
'Academic entryism' - Board of Education was always getting reports back about labour college lecturers being subversive. When inspector visited there were two sets of notes, one for when the inspectors were there, one for when they weren't. Richard Lewis #workingclassed19
Interesting hearing abt women's education within #adulted at some conferences or meetings there was a deliberate decision to split the meetings not b/c it was ideal but b/c of an awareness of how male trades unionists could dominate and be intimidating! Kumbhat #workingclassed19
Pushpa Kumbhat: alot of emphasis on rural education as part of rural regeneration. Funded by LA's and Castle trust but funding did eventually dry up. Students in East Yorks put up one of the tutors in their homes when weather stopped them from travelling back. #WorkingClassEd19
For anyone at #CelebratingEducation who is also interested in #adulted and the history of working class education - I'm live-tweeting the event on #WorkingClassEd19
Chester Armstrong - auto-biography is his story of lifelong learning in the North East in Ashington. Reading society that he formed laid groundwork for cooperative forms of education. 1920s he developed a cooperative education class on #sociology! @nigelwingrove #WorkingClassEd19
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