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McCallum, Gordon, Ed. – 1991
This book contains five essays that recount the story of Britain's Workers' Educational Association (WEA) in particular and adult education in general in Cornwall since 1919. "An Idea Moves West: The Days before 1919" (Bernard Deacon) discusses the birth of the movement. The problems of chronically high unemployment, low wages, and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Economic Factors, Educational Development, Educational Finance
Horton, Aimee Isgrig – 1989
This book reviews the history of the Highlander Folk School (Summerfield, Tennessee) and describes school programs that were developed to support Black and White southerners involved in social change. The Highlander Folk School was a small, residential adult education institution founded in 1932. The first section of the book provides background…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Blacks, Change Agents
