East Marshian Chronicles

Working Class Adult Education with Pushpa Kumbhat

June 01, 2021 Season 1 Episode 2
East Marshian Chronicles
Working Class Adult Education with Pushpa Kumbhat
Show Notes

In this episode we talk to history tutor Dr Pushpa Kumbhat, who researches the history of British adult education in relation to the labour movement, citizenship, political representation and democracy.  Pushpa helps us find out more about what working class adult education is and why it matters - in particular the evolution of working class adult education from late C19th to 1939 to include University extension, Cooperative education, Mechanics colleges, our own WEA and Labour colleges. Pushpa's other research interests include the history of women & adult education, the student experience of adult education and the role of universities and education outside the institution.

Resources

Intro and Outro music: JERUSALEM by Paul Robeson (1939); Lyrics, William Blake (1804); Composed, Hubert Parry (1916); Contributor, Internet Archive.

Interval music: 'Street Gang' by Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance from the album Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance (1975), written by (Lane, O'lochlainn, Steve Simpson.

Find out more
wea.org.uk
eastmarshunited.org