EAN: 9783039105632

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! - TOM STEELE KARTONIERT (TB)

This study is the first extensive attempt to chart the rise and fall of popular educational
movements across Europe following the 1848 revolutions to their demise at the outbreak of World
War Two. It examines in detail the relationships between the educational  political and social
aspirations of the emergent nationalist  workers¿ and women¿s movements  and the challenge to
traditional intellectuals and academic knowledge. Following the emergence of the bourgeois
public sphere in the early modern period  popular educational movements were central to the
pursuit of democratic civil societies and also fertile ground for innovatory subjects of
knowledge and interdisciplinary study  which have frequently reshaped the academic curriculum.
Radical forms flourished  ranging from civic educational leagues to folk high schools  workers¿
study circles  rationalist schools  Volksheims and university settlements that fed the demand
for high-quality  socially relevant and politically charged education for adults. These
stimulated radical social change  challenging the old empires and clerical domination. The
study plots the cross-cultural influences at work and shows why some models were more palatable
than others  drawing special attention to the rise of sociological positivism and
anti-clericalism. It concludes by considering the contemporary global currents of renewal.

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