Heywood & Hopwood May 2016
Heywood & Hopwood May 2016
Heywood & Hopwood May 2016
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identify and celebrate individual students,<br />
Albert Mansbridge<br />
discuss their aspirations, look at what they did<br />
for a living and find what some of them went on<br />
to become. In the book, not only does he discuss<br />
the reason why Rochdale was chosen as the site<br />
for this great experiment in worker education but<br />
also asks what motivated the first students to<br />
join and, following their experiences, how they<br />
used their knowledge.<br />
ere have been a number of histories of the<br />
WEA but Gary <strong>Heywood</strong>-Everett wanted to write<br />
one from the point of view of the studentworkers<br />
by asking – who were they ? , what did<br />
Gary <strong>Heywood</strong>-Everett<br />
they do it for? what did they go on to be ?<br />
His interest is from both an educational and a social<br />
inclusion point of view. ese working men and<br />
women, often factory hands during the day, managed<br />
to summon up the energy and intellectual curiosity<br />
to study Economic History and Politics both in their<br />
free time and in an organised class at the weekend.<br />
is is in addition to writing high quality essays for<br />
their tutor. e WEA tutorial class marks the first of<br />
thousands of such classes throughout the UK and worldwide.<br />
e book, entitled ‘Rochdale’s Pioneers of Worker Education: the WEA class of 1908’ tells<br />
the story of how the WEA tutorial class came into being through the energies of local<br />
people within the Rochdale Educational Guild, discusses the social situation faced by those<br />
who came forward for study and looks at who the students were and what they went on to<br />
become, some on a national stage. Drawn from the mills and often the poorest<br />
neighbourhoods in Rochdale, this first group of students were indeed pioneers of worker<br />
education.<br />
If you are interested in buying a copy of this book, you will find it on Amazon.com, at Create<br />
Space online store or, if you haven’t got computer access, give Gary a call at 07745201263.<br />
To advertise call 07976 289967 or 0797 443 4793 or email sales@streetwisemag.co.uk<br />
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