Of the Program of Adult Educationand Economic Cooperationsponsored by St
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 027 476 AC 003 965 B y Coady, M. M. Masters of Their Own Destiny; The Story ofThe Antigonish Movement of Adult EducationThrough Economic Cooperation. Pub Date 39 Note-177p. EDRS Price MF-$0.75 HC-$8.95 Groups, *Economic Descriptors-CommunityDevelopment,*Cooperatives.Credit(Finance),Discussion Development, Educational Attitudes. Farmers,Fisheries, *Historical Reviews, *LaborEducation, Local Unions, Mass Instruction, Political Power, PowerStructure, Regional Programs, SocioeconomicStatus, *University Extension Identifiers-*Antigonish Movement, Nova Scotia, StFrancis Xavier University The book records the developmentof the program of adult educationand economic cooperationsponsored by St. Francis XavierUniversity in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. The program datesfrom 1853 when a Catholic theologicalschool was established at Arichat. In 1855 theschool was transferred to Antigonish,named St. Francis Xavier, enlarged and convertedinto a liberal arts college.By 1939, the faculty wai known for its interest inthe people of its constituency.S.F.X extension workers organized mass meetingsand small classes enrollingfarmers, miners, and factory workers in economicallyoriented adult education programs.The study clubs proved an adequate meansfor organizing labor and credit unionsand economic cooperatives. Eventually, thepeople owned their own lobsterfactories and marketing cooperatives; economic powerof the masses was being achieved.Basic to the philosophy of the S.F.X. extension program wasthe belief that educationalemphasis should be on the material and economic sothat u;timately the common manwould be free to devote his time and energiesto cultural pursuits.Although the program repudiates Marxism, economic cooperatives areadvocated, since they reward the members according to thepeople's creative .and .productiveability. (The book contains a revisionof statistics correct to the endof 1960.) (se) U.S.
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