Ruskin College students : reading and autodidactism
Ruskin History students' visit to Avebury with guide and former student and MA Public History graduate - Brian Edwards
Continuity and Change: the Identity of the Political Reader
And
Radical Education: the Reader and the Self
Both these articles discuss the tradition of reading and autodidactism in Britain. They were written when I first started teaching at Ruskin College, Oxford and I was interested in the way in which students seemed to have read key works of an earlier generation. The interviews I conducted showed that many who defined themselves as political and readers also saw themselves as separate from contemporary lifestyles and ways of thinking.Their use of language to describe themselves was similar to that used by autodidacts writing autobiographically in the early twentieth century.
Continuity and Change: the Identity of the Political Reader
Changing English vol 3 no 2, 1996 pp. 209 – 218
Email me if you would like a PDF for personal use: hilda@hildakean.com
Radical Education: the Reader and the Self
Adult Education. Critical Intelligence and Social Change (NIACE), 1995 eds Jane Thompson and Marjorie Mayo pp 58 – 68
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