Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age: 'To Open the Immortal Eye'

ISBN-13: 9783031359545 / Angielski

Sharon Clancy

Spis treści

Part One:  Steps towards Democratising Adult Education
Chapter One – Introduction: Residential Adult Education – Ideas and Antecedents
Chapter Two – Adult Education – into the Twentieth Century
Chapter Three – Spirit and Character – the role of the Warden
Part Two: Developing within Democratic Adult Education Contexts
Chapter Four – ‘Culture is ordinary’ – dialectics, critical thinking and elitism
Chapter Five – ‘Country House living’ and Artisanship
Chapter Six – The Spiritual Turn, Power and Hierarchy
Part Three: the Future of Adult Education – Lessons, Challenges and Stirrings
Chapter Seven – ‘McMindfulness’ and the Crisis in Adult Education
Chapter Eight - Into the Future – Green Shoots and Activism

O autorze

Sharon Clancy is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK, specialising in post-16 and adult education. Her writing focuses on class, culture and social justice issues with a socio-historical lens. She leads the Research Circle on Fostering Democracy, Debate and Dialogue which emerged from the Centenary Commission on Adult Education. Sharon was Head of Community Engagement at the University of Nottingham between 2007 and 2013. A voluntary sector/public engagement leader before entering academia, she was CEO of Mansfield Council for Voluntary Services between 2000 and 2007. Sharon is currently Chair of the Raymond Williams Foundation. She is also a commissioner for the Centenary Commission, Communications Officer for SCUTREA and Co-Editor of the Studies in the Education of Adults journal.  

Blurb

This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948 – 1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the development of eclectic and esoteric learning opportunities in arts, traditional crafts, culture and ecology. Embodying the spirit of a new national drive for optimism and enterprise in the post-war period, Trevelyan, and his contemporaries at other colleges, took risks and innovated in new pedagogical approaches to adult education, capturing the imagination of hundreds of students, before being stifled by an increasingly restrictive policy framework and financial strictures. The book considers the ideological drivers and tensions behind this unique form of education - its inception, evolution and virtual demise - and seeks to learn from its complex history to inform education in the future.   

Sharon Clancy is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK, specialising in post-16 and adult education. Her writing focuses on class, culture and social justice issues with a socio-historical lens. She leads the Research Circle on Fostering Democracy, Debate and Dialogue which emerged from the Centenary Commission on Adult Education. Sharon was Head of Community Engagement at the University of Nottingham between 2007 and 2013. A voluntary sector/public engagement leader before entering academia, she was CEO of Mansfield Council for Voluntary Services between 2000 and 2007. Sharon is currently Chair of the Raymond Williams Foundation. She is also a commissioner for the Centenary Commission, Communications Officer for SCUTREA and Co-Editor of the Studies in the Education of Adults journal.