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dc.contributor.authorHopkins, Neil
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-12T09:14:00Z
dc.date.available2020-04-29T00:00:00Z
dc.date.available2020-05-12T09:14:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-11
dc.identifier.citationHopkins N (2020) 'Creating sites for education and democracy: Henry Morris and the Cambridgeshire village colleges', British Educational Research Journal, 46 (5), pp.1099-1110.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0141-1926
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/berj.3615
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10547/623954
dc.description.abstractThis article investigates the work of Henry Morris (1889–1961), in particular his ideas on the Cambridgeshire village colleges. It is now 90 years since the first of these was founded in Sawston in 1930, and the article aims to address the issue of whether Morris’s views on education and democ- racy encapsulated in the village colleges still have relevancy in the early twenty-first century. An overview of Morris’s career and the creation of the village colleges is investigated, using the work of Paul Hirst and associative democracy as a theoretical lens. It is argued that the Cambridgeshire village colleges do have some attributes of associative democracy, particularly their original emphasis as sites of local democracy and participation from voluntary bodies and private individuals. How- ever, Morris’s role as Cambridgeshire’s Chief Education Officer (1922–1954) meant that the local state (in the guise of the County Council) played a more significant role in the village colleges than Hirst advocates for his version of associative democracy. As English primary and secondary schools turn from local authority control to academy status, Morris’s vision for local schools of and for local people is becoming increasingly compromised. The article ends with the work of Allen and Gann, both influenced by Morris, who argue for a revitalised form of comprehensive schooling and lifelong learning that again sees educational institutions as sites of grassroots democracy.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.urlhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/berj.3615en_US
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dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectvillage collegesen_US
dc.subjectSubject Categories::X300 Academic studies in Educationen_US
dc.titleCreating sites for education and democracy: Henry Morris and the Cambridgeshire village collegesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1469-3518
dc.identifier.journalBritish Educational Research Journalen_US
dc.date.updated2020-05-11T15:25:41Z
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