Tom Steele
Knowledge Is Power!
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Tom Steele
LC196.5.E8 S74 2007 LC191
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-303) and index.
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Oxford, New York, England, 2007
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Lang, Peter Lang
This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions
to their demise at the outbreak of World War Two. It examines in detail the relationships between the educational, political and social aspirations
of the emergent nationalist, workers' and women's movements, and the challenge to traditional intellectuals and academic knowledge. Following
the emergence of the bourgeois public sphere in the early modern period, popular educational movements were central to the pursuit of
democratic civil societies and also fertile ground for innovatory subjects of knowledge and interdisciplinary study, which have frequently
reshaped the academic curriculum. Radical forms flourished, ranging from civic educational leagues to folk high schools, workers' study circles,
rationalist schools, Volksheims and university settlements that fed the demand for high-quality, socially relevant and politically charged education
for adults. These stimulated radical social change, challenging the old empires and clerical domination. The study plots the cross-cultural
influences at work and shows why some models were more palatable than others, drawing special attention to the rise of sociological positivism
and anti-clericalism. It concludes by considering the contemporary global currents of renewal.
Knowledge is power!
2007
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Knowledge is power!
Tom Steele
Oxford, New York, England, 2007
Lang, Peter Lang

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LC196.5.E8 S74 2007 lcc:LC196.5.E8 S74 2007
LC191 lcc:LC191
2007