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Working Class Adult Education with Pushpa Kumbhat
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In this episode we talk to history tutor Dr Pushpa Kumbhat, who researches the history of British adult education in relation to the labour movement, citizenship, political representation and democracy. Pushpa helps us find out more about what working class adult education is and why it matters - in particular the evolution of working class adult education from late C19th to 1939 to include University extension, Cooperative education, Mechanics colleges, our own WEA and Labour colleges. Pushpa's other research interests include the history of women & adult education, the student experience of adult education and the role of universities and education outside the institution.
Resources
- Pushpa's PhD thesis: Working Class Adult Education in Yorkshire 1918 - 1939
- Centenary Commission on Adult Education 2019 (This commission revisited and commemorated the 1919 Report on Adult Education)
- WEA Pamphlet, Adult Student as Citizen (list of all students past and present in WEA who are in public service in 1938 in England and Wales).
Intro and Outro music: JERUSALEM by Paul Robeson (1939); Lyrics, William Blake (1804); Composed, Hubert Parry (1916); Contributor, Internet Archive.
Interval music: 'Street Gang' by Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance from the album Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance (1975), written by (Lane, O'lochlainn, Steve Simpson.
Find out more
wea.org.uk
eastmarshunited.org
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