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picture: raymond williams - wikipedia commons gnu licenceRaymond Williams and education. Josh Cole explores his little appreciated contribution.

John Howard Whitehouse, Ruskin and educational reform. Sara Atwood explores Whitehouse's work around youth and schooling - and his championship of Ruskin.

Herbert Stead, Browning Hall, and the fight for old-age pensions. Stead made a significant contribution both to the development of the settlement movement and to winning the old age pension.

Pearl Jephcott, young people and the lives of ordinary people. We review Jephcott's work around young people and the everyday experience of working class communities.

Coming soon : Jurgen Habermas · Lewis Mumford · Basil Henriques

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Addams, Jane (in preparation)

Arendt, Hannah

Argyris, Chris

Aristotle

Baden Powell, Robert

Barnardo, (Dr) Thomas John

Barnett, Henrietta

Barnett, Leonard

Batten, Reg and Madge

Baudrillard, Jean

Biko, Steve

Boal, Augusto

Bok, Sissela

Brandon, David

Brew, Josephine Macalister

Bruner, Jerome C.

Bryan, Tom

Buber, Martin

Butterworth, James

Button, Leslie

Caldwell Cook, Henry

Carpenter, Mary

Clayton, Revd. Philip "Tubby"

Coyle, Grace

Dewey, John

DuBois, W. E. B.

Eagar, Waldo McG.

Eisner, Elliot W.

Follett, Mary Parker  

Freire, Paulo

Froebel, Friedrich

Fromm, Erich

Gandhi, M. K.  

Gardner, Howard

Goetschius, George

Goodwin, William

Gramsci, Antonio

Grundtvig, N. F. S.

Gulick, Luther

Hahn, Kurt

Octavia Hill

Hogg, Quintin

hooks, bell

Horton, Miles  (in preparation)

Illich, Ivan

Jephcott, Pearl

Knowles, Malcolm

Kolb, David

Konopka, Gisela

Krishnamurti, Jiddu

Lane, Homer

Lindeman, Eduard

Lovett, William

Maclure, William

Malcolm X

Marx, Karl

Mason, Charlotte

McClusky, Howard

Mills, C. Wright

Milson, Fred

Montessori, Maria

More, Hannah

Morris, Henry  

Neill, A. S.  

Noddings, Nel

Nyerere, Julius K.

Owen, Robert

Palmer, Parker J.

Paterson, Alexander

Pelham, Tom W. H.

Pestalozzi, Johann H.

Plato

Polanyi, Michael

Putnam, Robert. D.

Ranyard, Ellen

Reed, Bryan

Rogers, Carl

Romero, Oscar

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 

Ruskin, John

Russell, Charles  

Saadawi, Nawal El 

Schon (Schön), Donald

Senge, Peter  

Seton, Ernest

Sewell, Leslie

Smith, William

Solly, Henry  

Stanley, Maude  

Stansfeld, Dr John

Stead, Herbert

Sweatman, Arthur  

Tagore, Rabindranath

Tash, Joan

Tawney, Richard Henry  

Tuckman, Bruce W.

Whitehouse, John Howard

Williams, George

Williams, Raymond

Willmott, Peter

Wilson, Gertrude

Wollstonecraft, Mary

Woods, Robert A.

Yeaxlee, Basil