Beyond the Walls. 50 Years of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Leeds, 1946-1996. Leeds Studies in Continuing Education.

Overview & Synopsis

This book contains 21 papers detailing the history of adult and continuing education at the University of Leeds (England) since its inception in 1946 as the Department of Extra-Mural Studies. The themes addressed include the appropriate nature of university continuing education and the issue of standards and quality assurance; the roles of continuing vocational education, community and industrial education, applied social studies, and liberal adult education; the study of continuing education itself and the research roles of a university department of continuing education; and the position of women within what has been largely a male tradition and structure. The following papers are included in Part 1: Departmental Perspectives: "Sidney Raybould, Fred Sedgwick, and the Early Department" (Roger Fieldhouse); "Recalling Raybould's Department (Roy Shaw); "The Department and the Community Dimension" (Richard Taylor, Kevin Ward); "From Special Courses to Continuing Professional Education" (Frankie Todd); "Some Personal Recollections of the Early Years of the Department" (Tom Caldwell); "The Department 1969-1982" (Norman Jepson); "Insider Outsiders: Part-Time Tutors' Perspectives" (Colin Johnson et al.). Part 2: "Departmental Provision" includes these papers: "Educating Industrial Workers 1954-1974: Growth and Achievement within the Raybould Formula" (Roger Dyson); "Remaking Trade Union Education: Industrial Studies Developments from 1979 to 1994" (Keith Forrester); "E. P. Thompson and the Making of 'The Making of the English Working Class'" (David Goodway);"Walthamstow, Little Gidding and Middlesbrough: Edward Thompson the Literature Tutor" (Andy Croft); "The Departmental Contribution in the Fields of Criminal Justice and Penal Studies" (Norman Jepson); "Social Work Education, Research and Development, 1963-1994" (Mike Stein); "Educating the Educators of Adults: Postgraduate Provision in Adult Education" (Stuart Marriott); "Researching the Education of Adults" (Miriam Zukas); "Subject Teaching in the Department over 50 Years" (containing articles by Tony Donajgrodzki et al.); "A Little Bit of Leeds on Foreign Soil: The Bradford Centre" (Tony Jowitt); "A Different Vision? The Middlesbrough Centre" (Malcolm Chase); "Less Luck, Less Stroppy or What?" (Jean Gardiner, Rebecca O'Rourke); "'Heroic Student-Souls': Attitudes to Women in the Department" (Rebecca O'Rourke, Jean Gardiner). Part 3: "Present and Future Trends" contains the final paper, "The Leeds Department in the 1960s and the 1990s: And the Impact of Current Trends in University Continuing Education" (Chris Duke). (KC)