Engaging citizens: the Kent miners and workers' education

Linden West

doi:10.3898/forum.2024.66.3.04

Engaging citizens: the Kent miners and workers' education

Linden West

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	41-55
Journal	Forum
Volume	66
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3898/forum.2024.66.3.04
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2024

Keywords

Community
Participative democracy
Popular education
The common good

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