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Hopkins, Neil – British Educational Research Journal, 2020
This article investigates the work of Henry Morris (1889-1961), in particular his ideas on the Cambridgeshire village colleges. It is now 90 years since the first of these was founded in Sawston in 1930, and the article aims to address the issue of whether Morris's views on education and democracy encapsulated in the village colleges still have…
Descriptors: Community Education, Democracy, Educational History, Foreign Countries
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Ranson, Stewart – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2021
The post-war consensus has been dismantled in favour of a culture that rewards and empowers a small acquisitive elite at the expense of the great majority. This culture actively prevents the creation of a society of mutual recognition and respect. But without just such a society there can be no true comprehensive education. Where it exists,…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Democratic Values, Political Issues, Holistic Approach