Engaging citizens: the Kent miners and workers’ education for the common good
FORUM - ISSN 0963-8253
Volume 66 Number 3 (2024)
Engaging citizens: the Kent miners and workers’ education for the common good
Linden West pages 41-55
DOI: 10.3898/forum.2024.66.3.04
Abstract
This article embodies a kind of backward travelling by revisiting the history of workers’ education in a mining community as part of our contemporary struggle to reinvigorate notions of the common good and popular education. Its focus is the complexities of working-class history, disparaged in neoliberal condescension and oversimplified in some progressive thought: a history of contention and struggle, yet rich in experiment in dialogical, democratic and cooperative learning.
To cite this article
Linden West (2024) Engaging citizens: the Kent miners and workers’ education for the common good, FORUM, 66(3), 41-55. https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2024.66.3.04