FORUM Volume 66 (2024) Issue 3

ISSN 0963-8253

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Reconstructing adult education for the common good

Contents

Editorial: Reconstructing adult education for the common good, pages 4‑16
John Holford Free to download

Adult education and whose common good?, pages 17‑31
Sharon Clancy, Cilla Ross Free to download

An accidental sociologist: a reflection on working-class education and becoming an adult learner, pages 32‑40
Lisa Mckenzie Free to download

Engaging citizens: the Kent miners and workers’ education for the common good, pages 41‑55
Linden West Free to download

Education for social justice: everyone should have the right to learn, pages 56‑60
Vicky Duckworth

Brian Simon, adult education and the Gramscian moment, pages 61‑69
Gary McCulloch

Foundations for folk at Fircroft: reality-driven competencies, pages 70‑78
Angela Bate

Poem: Fircroft, pages 78‑79
Dawood Sadiq

At Fircroft, we sing: introducing communal singing as a new traditional practice at Fircroft College of Adult Education, pages 80‑85
Zoe Mabbs, Holly Henderson

Adult education and The Legacy: recovering undiscovered public knowledge, pages 86‑95
Jean Barr

Trade unions and learning: building a better future, pages 96‑105
Tom Wilson

Rebuilding universities as vehicles for lifelong learning, pages 106‑115
Jonathan Michie

Adult learning within reach: the WEA as a social justice charity, pages 116‑125
Simon Parkinson

The private, the public and the common good: loss and learning in a contemporary research circle, pages 126‑138
Sharon Clancy, Iain Jones

Towards people’s palaces of culture?, pages 139‑148
Alan Tuckett Free to download

Letters

Colin Richards and Frank Norris, pages 149‑150

Book reviews

Adult education in a university of the elite, pages 151‑157
John Holford Free to download

Attingham Hall, Shropshire: the hidden history of a short-course adult education college, pages 158‑162
Cilla Ross Free to download