Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire, 1969-1972

Retrospective Consideration, Selective Re-Presentation, and Reflective Critique
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41229-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 28, 134 Seiten, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 295 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: International Issues in Adult Education

In 1969, Colin Kirkwood took on the job of Area Principal for Adult Education in north-east Derbyshire. There he formed a remarkable creative partnership with Rob Hunter, a brilliant young Community Worker. This is the story of their collaboration and dialogue with the people of Staveley, a small coal, steel and chemicals town in the north-midlands of England. Together they created the local newspaper, Staveley Now, the Staveley Disabled Group, the Staveley Festival and much else. Community Work and Adult Education in Staveley, North-East Derbyshire celebrates this important collaboration by drawing on letters, interviews, poems, issues of the local newspaper and reports and articles written at the time. The research and critical assessment of their work together in the early 1970s can be linked with that of Paulo Freire in Latin America and throughout the world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kirkwood, Colin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Erwachsenenbildung, lebenslanges Lernen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Sarah Banks

Foreword: Staveley: There and Then, Here and Now

Linden West

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms

About the Author

Introduction

1 Stance and Methodology

2 The Social, Economic, Political and Institutional Context

3 The Young Volunteer Force Foundation Report

1 Staveley

4 The Outsiders

1 The List of Polarities Should Be Shown Covering a Whole Facing Page at This Point 19
2 Commentary on Hitler Spring

5 The Initiatives and Activities

1 The First Six Months

2 The Survey of the Disabled

3 The Co-op Hall

4 The Idea of a Local Newspaper

5 The First Meeting

6 The First Issue

7 Staveley Now, No. 1

8 Mastin Moor Complaint

9 The Poolsbrook Page

10 Working-class Poets

11 Letting the People Know

13 Overview of the First Issue

14 The Autumn Programme

15 The Second Issue of Staveley Now

16 This Is Your Life

17 Resurrection

18 Do It Yourself, Says the Duke

19 Poolsbrook Reply

20 Edifying Scatological Diversion

21 Mastin Moor Upsurge Blocked

22 The Workings of a Local Labour Party

23 Staveley Disabled Group

24 Staveley Festival Group

25 Abilities or Disabilities

26 The Hard Men

27 Hell’s Angels Talk

28 More Providing and Informing

29 Staveley Now, No. 4

30 Social Comment Photography

31 Staveley Festival

32 Conflicts in SDG

33 The Drive Towards Centralization

34 Mastin Moor Mothers

35 Staveley Now, No. 6
36 Education Rules OK

37 Strike

6 After-Effects and Retrospects

7 Analysis of Keywords and Themes

1 Thematic Fan One

2 Thematic Fan Two

3 Thematic Fan Three

4 Thematic Fan Four

5 Thematic Fan Five

Afterword

1 Personal Reflections on the Work in Staveley

2 A Revival in Community Work in England?

3 Community Work: How can we Learn to do it Better?

4 Integrating the Intrapersonal and Interpersonal: Emotional Literacy in Community Work

5 Convergence

6 Author’s note

Responses to Sarah Banks, Linden West and Rob Hunter

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Colin Kirkwood studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. He was Area Principal for Adult Education in North-East Derbyshire, and Tutor Organiser and District Secretary of the Workers Educational Association in South-East Scotland. He taught Community Education and was Head of Counselling Studies in the University of Edinburgh. Later he worked as Psychotherapist with people suffering from severe eating disorders.