"Earnest Students Anxious to Acquire a Practical Knowledge Suited to the Trade of the District": The Growth and Development of the Mechanics' Institute Movement with Particular Reference to Huddersfield 1824-1890

Autor/in	Walker, Martyn
Titel	"Earnest Students Anxious to Acquire a Practical Knowledge Suited to the Trade of the District": The Growth and Development of the Mechanics' Institute Movement with Particular Reference to Huddersfield 1824-1890
Quelle	In: Journal of Educational Administration and History, 46 (2014) 1, S.38-56 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0620
DOI	10.1080/00220620.2014.855177
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Educational History; Adult Education; Mechanics (Process); Working Class; Technical Education; Elementary Education; Tests; Group Membership; Institutional Characteristics; Educational Development; United Kingdom (England); United Kingdom (Great Britain) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Mechanische Bewegung; Arbeiterklasse; Technikunterricht; Elementarunterricht; Examination; Prüfung; Examen; Gruppenzugehörigkeit; Bildungsentwicklung
Abstract	The mechanics' institute movement of the British Isles has been underrated by some historians, who have argued that many of the institutes were attended by the middle and upper classes. In any case, they state that by the 1850s, they were declining in both popularity and usefulness. This paper questions these assumptions, concentrating on the developments at the Huddersfield Mechanics' Institute and comparing with other institutes both locally and nationally its responsiveness to local and national developments with regard to its contribution to education. Like many other institutes, Huddersfield provided a foundation on which twentieth-century further education was firmly established. Britain was not the only country to establish a mechanics' institute movement as similar developments were also taking place in other countries, particularly in Australia. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10