A design for democracy: Britain’s 1919 Report, the context of its creation and its relevance today

IF 2.3 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF EDUCATION Pub Date : 2024-03-18 DOI:10.1007/s11159-023-10018-w
Paul Stanistreet, Alan Tuckett
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The “1919 Report” of the British Ministry of Reconstruction’s Adult Education Committee, produced as the First World War was ending, reflects the optimism of its committee about the possibilities for a more socially just and democratic society and its concern to find an alternative to economic deprivation and disenfranchisement. Its central thesis is that adult education is “a permanent national necessity” for an active informed democracy, which should, therefore, be both “universal and lifelong”. Despite the report’s lukewarm initial reception, its influence on the development of adult education over a century in Britain and in other anglophone countries has been marked. As R. D. Waller argued in 1956, it “is probably the most significant single contribution made to the literature of adult education”, certainly in the United Kingdom. It may well also be the first major national report on adult education published anywhere to be grounded in a comprehensive survey of existing provision. This article examines the context of its creation, its core arguments and their strengths and deficiencies, as well as its reception and subsequent impact. The article ends with a consideration of the report’s contemporary relevance and how its core ideas of voluntarism and co-construction of knowledge can support democratic renewal through education.

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民主的设计:英国 1919 年报告、其创作背景及其对当今的意义
英国重建部成人教育委员会的 "1919 年报告 "是在第一次世界大战即将结束时编写的,它反映了该委员会对建立一个更加社会公正和民主的社会的可能性的乐观态度,以及对找到一种替代经济贫困和权利被剥夺的办法的关注。报告的中心论点是,成人教育是实现积极知情民主的 "国家永久需要",因此,成人教育应当是 "普及的和终身的"。尽管该报告最初受到冷遇,但一个世纪以来,它对英国和其他英语国家的成人教育发展产生了显著影响。正如 R. D. Waller 在 1956 年所言,它 "可能是对成人教育文献做出的最重要的一项贡献",当然是在英国。它很可能也是任何地方出版的第一份以全面调查现有办学情况为基础的关于成人教育的重要国家报告。本文探讨了该报告的创作背景、核心论点及其优缺点,以及对该报告的接受情况和后续影响。文章最后探讨了该报告在当代的现实意义,以及报告中关于自愿和共同构建知识的核心理念如何通过教育支持民主复兴。
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INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF EDUCATION EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-
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期刊介绍: The International Review of Education – Journal of Lifelong Learning (IRE) is edited by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, a global centre of excellence for lifelong learning and learning societies. Founded in 1955, IRE is the world’s longest-running peer-reviewed journal of comparative education, serving not only academic and research communities but, equally, high-level policy and practice readerships throughout the world. Today, IRE provides a forum for theoretically-informed and policy-relevant applied research in lifelong and life-wide learning in international and comparative contexts. Preferred topic areas include adult education, non-formal education, adult literacy, open and distance learning, vocational education and workplace learning, new access routes to formal education, lifelong learning policies, and various applications of the lifelong learning paradigm.Consistent with the mandate of UNESCO, the IRE fosters scholarly exchange on lifelong learning from all regions of the world, particularly developing and transition countries. In addition to inviting submissions from authors for its general issues, the IRE also publishes regular guest-edited special issues on key and emerging topics in lifelong learning.
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