Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age
'To Open the Immortal Eye'
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This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948 – 1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the development of eclectic and esoteric learning opportunities in arts, traditional crafts, culture and ecology. Embodying the spirit of a new national drive for optimism and enterprise in the post-war period, Trevelyan, and his contemporaries at other colleges, took risks and innovated in new pedagogical approaches to adult education, capturing the imagination of hundreds of students, before being stifled by an increasingly restrictive policy framework and financial strictures. The book considers the ideological drivers and tensions behind this unique form of education - its inception, evolution and virtual demise - and seeks to learn from its complex history to inform education in the future.
Sharon Clancy is Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham, UK, specialising in post-16 and adult education. Her writing focuses on class, culture and social justice issues with a socio-historical lens. She leads the Research Circle on Fostering Democracy, Debate and Dialogue which emerged from the Centenary Commission on Adult Education. Sharon was Head of Community Engagement at the University of Nottingham between 2007 and 2013. A voluntary sector/public engagement leader before entering academia, she was CEO of Mansfield Council for Voluntary Services between 2000 and 2007. Sharon is currently Chair of the Raymond Williams Foundation. She is also a commissioner for the Centenary Commission, Communications Officer for SCUTREA and Co-Editor of the Studies in the Education of Adults journal.
This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the development of eclectic and esoteric learning opportunities in arts, traditional crafts, culture and ecology. Embodying the spirit of a new national drive for optimism and enterprise in the post-war period, Trevelyan, and his contemporaries at other colleges, took risks and innovated in new pedagogical approaches to adult education, capturing the imagination of hundreds of students, before being stifled by an increasingly restrictive policy framework and financial strictures. The book considers the ideological drivers and tensions behind this unique form of education - its inception, evolution and virtual demise - and seeks to learn from its complex history to inform education in the future.
Develops insights into the tension between policy and provision in adult residential education Examines how Sir George Trevelyan developed and innovated course content Argues for learning from the complex history of adult residential education to help shape its future
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“This book covers multiple intersecting themes and narratives which are skilfully woven together by Sharon Clancy, who uses immaculate research, intellectual clarity and the courage of her convictions to do so.” (Cilla Ross, FORUM for comprehensive education, Vol. 66 (3), 2024)
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‘This is simultaneously a richly concrete historical study of the Shropshire Adult College and its warden, George Trevelyan, and a rigorously theorised analysis of what adult education can and should be like.’ — Colin Waugh, Editor, Post-16 Educator
'Sharon Clancy has produced a fascinating, thorough and substantial study of an important aspect of the history of post-war education in Britain. The residential college movement transformed the lives of many adult students, and its story is elegantly told in this study of the Shropshire Adult College at Attingham Hall'. — Mark Freeman, Professor of Social History and Education, Institute of Education, University College London, UK and Co-editor, History of Education
‘Adult education provided by short-term residential colleges was a feature of the years between the general election of 1945 and the economic turmoil of the 1970s. Sharon Clancy provides an enthralling history of oneof the principal colleges and of the remarkable man who led it for 24 years. But this is more than well-researched and well-written history The need for adult education remains and she raises penetrating questions about its place in the 21st century.’ — Barrie Trinder FSA, historian and writer on industrial archaeology
‘This book offers a powerful resource in what Milan Kundera called the perpetual struggle of memory against power and forgetting. The memory and feeling of adult residential colleges conjure a world, at its best, of beauty, creativity and democratic community. Eclectic groups of adult learners - after the destruction, barbarism and shattered lives of world wars - could freely imagine and embody humane, spiritual and democratic values for ecological and cultural renewal. This book enables us to dialogue with them in our own troubled journey to transcend the neoliberal dystopia and abuse of planet Earth.’ — Linden West, Emeritus Professor ofEducation, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
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