DOCUMENT RESUME ED 400 468 CE 072 874 AUTHOR Taylor, Richard, Ed. TITLE Beyond the Walls. 50 Years of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Leeds, 1946-1996. Leeds Studies in Continuing Education. INSTITUTION Leeds Univ. (England). Dept. of Adult and Continuing Education. REPORT NO ISBN-0-900960-80-9; ISSN-0965-0342 PUB DATE 96 NOTE 339p.; Photographs may not reproduce well. AVAILABLE FROMStudy of Continuing Education Unit, School of Education, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England, United Kingdom. PUB TYPE Historical Materials (060) Collected Works General (020) EDRS PRICE MFO1 /PC14 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adult Education; *Adult Educators; *Continuing Education; Departments; Educational Attitudes; *Educational History; *Educational Practices; *Educational Trends; Extension Education; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Outcomes of Education; Program Implementation; Teacher Education; Womens Education; Working Class IDENTIFIERS *University of Leeds (England) ABSTRACT This book contains 21 papers detailing the history of adult and continuing education at the University of Leeds (England) since its inception in 1946 as the Department of Extra-Mural Studies. The themes addressed include the appropriate nature of university continuing education and the issue of standards and quality assurance; the roles of continuing vocational education, community and industrial education, applied social studies, and liberal adult education; the study of continuing education itself and the research roles of a university department of continuing education; and the position of women within what has been largely a male tradition and structure. The following papers are included in Part 1: Departmental Perspectives: "Sidney Raybould, Fred Sedgwick, and the Early Department" (Roger Fieldhouse); "Recalling Raybould's Department (Roy Shaw); "The Department and the Community Dimension" (Richard Taylor, Kevin Ward); "From Special Courses to Continuing Professional Education" (Frankie Todd); "Some Personal Recollections of the Early Years of the Department" (Tom Caldwell); "The Department 1969-1982" (Norman Jepson); "Insider Outsiders: Part-Time Tutors' Perspectives" (Colin Johnson et al.). Part 2: "Departmental Provision" includes these papers: "Educating Industrial Workers 1954-1974: Growth and Achievement within the Raybould Formula" (Roger Dyson); "Remaking Trade Union Education: Industrial Studies Developments from 1979 to 1994" (Keith Forrester); "E. P. Thompson and the Making of 'The Making of the English Working Class'" (David Goodway); "Walthamstow, Little Gidding and Middlesbrough: Edward Thompson the Literature Tutor" (Andy Croft); "The Departmental Contribution in the Fields of Criminal Justice and Penal Studies" (Norman Jepson); "Social Work Education, Research and Development, 1963-1994" (Mike Stein); "Educating the Educators of Adults: Postgraduate Provision in Adult Education" (Stuart Marriott); "Researching the Education of Adults" (Miriam Zukas); "Subject Teaching in the Department over 50 Years" (containing articles by Tony Donajgrodzki et al.); "A Little Bit of Leeds on Foreign Soil: The Bradford Centre" (Tony Jowitt); "A Different Vision? The Middlesbrough Centre" (Malcolm Chase); "Less Luck, Less Stroppy or What?" (Jean Gardiner, Rebecca O'Rourke); "'Heroic Student-Souls': Attitudes to Women in the Department" (Rebecca O'Rourke, Jean Gardiner). Part 3: "Present and Future Trends" contains the final paper, "The Leeds Department in the 1960s and the 1990s: And the Impact of Current Trends in University Continuing Education" (Chris Duke). (KC) *********************************************************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. *********************************************************************** Beyond the Walls 50 Years of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Leeds 1946-1996 Edited by Richard Taylor PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL Office of Educational Research and Improvement HAS BEEN GRANTED BY ED CATIONALI RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization Oroginating It 0 Minor changes have been made toimprove reproduction auallty. TO THE EDUCATI L RESOURCES Points of view or opinions stated in this docu- INFORMATION NTER (ERIC) ment do not necessarily representofficial OE RI positron Or policy. c.'40 THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS 1996 BEST COPY AVAILABLE 2 This volume is first published in 1996 by the Department of Adult Continuing Education in association with the series `Leeds Studies in Continuing Education' University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, Great Britain © The University of Leeds,1996 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission, except for the quotation of briefpassages in criticism Leeds Studies in Continuing Education ISSN 0965-0342 Beyond the Walls ISBN 0 900960 80 9 Composed in the Study of Continuing Education Unit, School ofEducation. Printed by the Print Service, a division of University of Leeds MediaServices. Contents Foreword Alan Wilson Vice-Chancellor, University of Leeds pagevii Preface Richard Taylor viii Part One: Departmental Perspectives 1 Sidney Raybould, Fred Sedgwick and the Early DepartmentRoger Fieldhouse 3 2Recalling Raybould's DepartmentRoy Shaw 31 3 The Department and the Community Dimension Richard Taylor and Kevin Ward 39 4From Special Courses to Continuing Professional EducationFrankie Todd 50 5 Some Personal Recollections of the Early Years of the DepartmentTom Caldwell 68 6The Department 1969-1982 Norman Jepson 80 7Insider Outsiders: Part-Time Tutors' Perspectives Colin Johnson, Valerie Smith, John Nellist 96 Part Two: Departmental Provision 8 Educating Industrial Workers 1954-1974: Growth and Achievement within the Raybould Formula Roger Dyson 107 9 Remaking Trade Union Education: Industrial Studies Developments from 1979 to 1994Keith Forrester 121 10 E. P. Thompson and the Making of The Making of the English Working ClassDavid Goodway 133 11 Walthamstow, Little Gidding and Middlesbrough: Edward Thompson the Literature TutorAndy Croft 144 12 The Departmental Contribution in the Fields of Criminal Justice and Penal StudiesNorman Jepson 157 13 Social Work Education, Research and Development, 1963-1994Mike Stein 168 4 14 Educating the Educators of Adults: Postgraduate Provision in Adult EducationStuart Marriott 177 15 Researching the Education of AdultsMiriam Zukas 193 16 Subject Teaching in the Department over 50 Years The Most Extramural Subject? History, especially Local History, at Leeds Tony Donajgrodzki 209 From Appreciation to Engagement:Fifty years of Literature TeachingLuke Spencer 214 Seeing in the Dark: (Almost) Fifty Years of Art History and the Adult StudentPaul Street 218 Archaeology at Leeds from 1960 to 1990 Alan Aberg and Jennifer Price 225 Subject Provision in the SciencesMiriam Zukas, Rob Chapman and Malcolm Chase 231 Psychology Teaching in the DepartmentMiriam Zukas238 A Dazed Decade of Social Studies 1972-1982 Mark Beeson 247 17A Little Bit of Leeds on Foreign Soil: The Bradford Centre Tony Jozvitt 251 18A Different Vision? The Middlesbrough Centre Malcolm Chase 259 19 Less Lucky, Less Stroppy or What? Jean Gardiner and Rebecca O'Rourke 270 20 'Heroic Student-Souls': Attitudes to Women in the DepartmentRebecca O'Rourke and Jean Gardiner 283 Part Three: Present and Future Trends 21 The Leeds Department in the 1960s and the 1990s: And the Impact of Current Trends in University Continuing EducationChris Duke 299 The Contributors 309 Index 315 vi Foreword The authors of this book both analyse and celebrate fifty years ofadult and continuing education in the University of Leeds. Inevitably, overthe years, the meanings of the key terms have changed: 'adult education' refers asmuch to the needs of mature students in the mainstream as to extramural or 'extension' lectures; and 'continuing' has the connotations of life -long learningin part to be provided by mainstream departments. Changing meaningsreflect changing needs and, unsurprisingly, there has been continuing review and reorganization of this provision in the Universityaccelerating in recent years, in partdriven internally, in part externally. What started as the Department ofExtra-Mural Studies is now the Department of Adult Continuing Educationand, shortly, it will find itself as a component in a broader-based School ofContinuing Education. There is an unbroken thread of tradition and commitment tothe provision of courses to the communities of Leeds and itsregionand perhaps particularly, a style of provisionwhich is quite distinctive. This arisesfrom a combination of the academic skills of the Department (and the wider Univer- sity) with an ability to draw people in who would not otherwise engagewith the University. In recent years, this tradition has been broadened todevelop continuing professional educationthrough a separate departmentand this also has achieved great success. A part of the success has been the encouragement ofcon tin uing education provision through other departments of the University. That such a community ofskills and abilities can be nurturedand developed through two or more generations in Leeds is quite remarkable. At the present time, over 30,000 people in a given year take at least one course incontinuing educationover 12,000 of these through the Department of Adult Continu- ing Education. In a fifty-year span, there are many who can stilltell the