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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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Goodman, Joyce – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2008
This article uses events in May 1985 surrounding the de-selection of the Conservative chair of the Wiltshire Education Committee and her role in the campaign for comprehensive education in Salisbury, England, to pose questions about the representation of women who championed causes deemed to be progressive and to raise issues about how gender…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Politics of Education, Educational History