期刊名称：Teaching in Lifelong Learning: A Journal to Inform and Improve Practice
印刷版ISSN：2040-0993
电子版ISSN：2049-4181
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：1-9
DOI：10.5920/till/2012.4132
出版社：University of Huddersfield Press
摘要：With the rapid developments and changes in the Further Education (FE) sector which have taken place over the last 20 years or so, it is appropriate to pause and question the origins and early developments of adult education and, in particular, the contribution made by the nineteenth century mechanics’ institute movement. This paper questions the hypothesis that mechanics’ institutes failed in offering education of any significance to working class adults. In doing so, the research provides a general history of the movement and its contribution to what became state funded FE which was emerging during the last decade of the nineteenth century.
关键词：Education History; Mechanics’ Institute Movement; Nineteenth Century Government Education Commissions and Acts; The Great Exhibition of 1851; Adult Education; Further Education.
