Research Catalog

Title

Dons and workers : Oxford and adult education since 1850 / Lawrence Goldman.

Author

Goldman, Lawrence, 1957-

Publication

Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1995.

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Details

Description

ix, 363 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This history of adult education in England considers its role in the evolution from late-Victorian liberalism to 20th-century socialism. Emphasis is placed on the University of Oxford, whose leading contribution to this movement presents a revealing portrait of its influence on the nation.

Uniform Title

University press scholarship online.

Subject

• University of Oxford > History > 19th century
• University of Oxford > History > 20th century
• Geschichte 1850-1995
• 1800-1999
• University extension > England > Oxford > History > 19th century
• University extension > England > Oxford > History > 20th century
• Adult education > England > Oxford > History > 19th century
• Adult education > England > Oxford > History > 20th century
• Working class > Education > History > England > Oxford > 19th century
• Working class > Education > History > England > Oxford > 20th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

Contents

1. University Reform and National Culture: The Origins of Oxford University Extension -- 2. Religion, Philosophy, and Workers' Education: Arthur Acland, Arnold Toynbee, and T.H. Green -- 3. Extending Oxford: University Extension in the Late-Victorian and Edwardian Age -- 4. Dons and Workers 1900-1914 -- 5. The Debate on Working-Class Education -- 6. Adult Education in War and Peace, 1914-1945 -- 7. The End of the Tradition: Oxford and Adult Education since 1945 -- 8. Oxford and Working-Class Education: An Assessment -- Appendix: Records of Extramural Education in the University of Oxford.

ISBN

0198205759

LCCN

^^^95020283^

OCLC

• 32590144
• SCSB-12376316

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library