Marxism and Adult Education in Britain

Autor/inn/en	Steele, Tom; Taylor, Richard
Titel	Marxism and Adult Education in Britain
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 2 (2004) 3-4, S.578-592 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
Schlagwörter	Political Attitudes; Community Education; War; Adult Education; Adult Educators; Foreign Countries; Social Theories; Social Class; Educational History; World History; Politics of Education; Social Change; Educational Theories; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; ; Gemeinschaftserziehung; Nachbarschaftserziehung; Krieg; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Adult education teacher; Adult education; Teacher; Teachers; Adult educator; Erwachsenenbildner; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Ausland; Gesellschaftstheorie; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Weltgeschichte; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Sozialer Wandel; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Großbritannien
Abstract	In British adult education Marxism has been a persistent if marginalised current that has consistently informed its more radical movements and practitioners. This article firstly introduces some contested Marxist perspectives on adult education, particularly around the issues of ideology and incorporation into bourgeois society. Secondly, it examines the adult educational context, contrasting the themes of middle-class-provided "liberal" adult education and "independent" working-class education. It then focuses on the trajectories of workers' education in the twentieth century and the contrasting roles Marxist education played in the Communist Party and the National Council of Labour Colleges up to the Second World War. In the post-war period the rebirth of community education in the 1960s and 1970s absorbed more cosmopolitan Marxist influence, such as those of Antonio Gramsci and Paulo Freire. The article ends by assessing what remains of the Marxist tradition in the twenty-first century and the authors conclude that in a capitalist system that remains deeply unequal and globally exploitative, Marxism still offers a valuable framework of analysis through which adult educators may be able to engage in a dialogue with emergent social movements. (Author).
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