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Walker, Martyn A. – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2015
This paper traces the origins and development of coal mining education and training in Britain from 1900 to the 1970s, by which time the coal industry had substantially declined. It looks at the progress from working-class self-help to national policy in support of education and training. The research makes use of college prospectuses and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fuels, Mining, Adult Education
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Bright, N. Geoffrey – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2012
This article reflects on some aspects of a doctoral ethnographic study of young people disaffected from schooling in a post-industrial space of ruin in a former coal-mining community in England. It considers how their experiences of resistance and refusal of schooling can, in the relational ethos of non-school support settings, come to speak back…
Descriptors: Fuels, Ethnography, Student School Relationship, Young Adults