In our Time: Adult Education and Birkbeck: Extra-Mural — An Experiment 1988–2009.
In this article I suggest that three strands of adult education in the nineteenth century contributed to the experiment of the affiliation of Extra-Mural Studies and Birkbeck between 1988 and 2009: those of the mechanics' institutions, the University of London, and Extra-Mural ('Extension'). Althoug...
| Publicado en: | 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century no. 36; pp. 1 - 41 |
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