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British Communism and the Politics of Education, 1926-1968 by Matthew Kavanagh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is British Communism and the Politics of Education, 1926-1968 about?
This thesis provides an analysis of British communist attitudes to education in English schools between 1926 and 1968. Although the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) in many ways remained a marginal force in British politics throughout its life (1920-1991), historians have acknowledged that it made a contribution to cultural and industrial politics in Britain which far exceeded its membership figures and electoral success. Surprisingly, given that the Party produced several teacher trade union presidents and Britain's foremost post-war educationalist, scholars have largely overlooked British communism's role in the politics of education in schools - a field which straddles both areas in which the Party is widely regarded to have punched above its weight. Researchers into the Party's internal life have also paid little attention to its schoolteachers' group, despite the fact that it was one of the CPGB's largest occupational groups, and the fact that leading communist teachers and educationalists also took up prominent positions inside the Party.Although some existing work has discussed CPGB attitudes to the education of children during the 1920s, 1940s and 1950s, to date ther
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Matthew Kavanagh
- Publisher
- The University of Manchester
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education