Authors: Lawrence Goldman
ISBN-13: 9780198205753, ISBN-10: 0198205759
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: February 1996
Edition: New Edition
St Peter's College, Oxford
Dons and Workers is a history of university adult education in England. It focuses on the University of Oxford whose leading contribution to this movement presents an unfamiliar portrait of this "elitist" university and its influence on the nation. Lawrence Goldman considers the relationship between intellectuals and the working class over the past century and a half, examining the role of adult education in the evolution from late-Victorian liberalism to twentieth-century socialism.
List of Plates | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | University Reform and National Culture: The Origins of Oxford University Extension | 11 |
2 | Religion, Philosophy, and Workers' Education: Arthur Acland, Arnold Toynbee, and T. H. Green | 37 |
3 | Extending Oxford: University Extension in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Age | 61 |
4 | Dons and Workers 1900-1914 | 103 |
5 | The Debate on Working-Class Education | 163 |
6 | Adult Education in War and Peace, 1914-1945 | 191 |
7 | The End of the Tradition: Oxford and Adult Education since 1945 | 248 |
8 | Oxford and Working-Class Education: An Assessment | 299 |
Appendix: Records of Extramural Education in the University of Oxford | 327 | |
Bibliography | 329 | |
Index | 351 |