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Direct linkWalker, Martyn – Educational Studies, 2013
Historians and educationalists have often assumed that working-class adult education emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century with the introduction of state-funded technical colleges. This was not the case. In 1823, the Glasgow Mechanics' Institute was opened and within a few years similar institutions were being established across the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Adult Education, Program Effectiveness
