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Ayres, Bryan John – History of Education, 2017
The children of navvies were subject to the vagaries of an itinerant lifestyle, and during the latter years of the nineteenth century this invariably affected their relationship with an educational system that mandated compulsory attendance. Based primarily on school records, this article explores the contrasting ways in which teachers perceived…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Urban Schools, Rural Urban Differences, Educational Finance
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Stephens, Michael D.; Roderick, Gordon W. – Paedagogica Historica, 1971
Descriptors: Case Studies, Educational History, Foreign Countries, Industrial Education
Fieldhouse, Roger – 1977
This paper, the fourth of a series, covers the impact of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) on the field of adult education in England. The content is presented in four sections. The first one briefly covers the origins of the WEA. Section 2, a review of WEA's founding principles, concentrates on the objectives of working class…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Access to Education, Administrative Change, Administrative Policy