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- Title: From Idealism to Realism: The Workers' Educational Association of Victoria 1920-1941.
- Author : History of Education Review
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 226 KB
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On 21 March 1941 the Council of the Workers' Educational Association of Victoria (WEAV), voted itself out of existence. This article discusses how a shift in a philosophical paradigm that took place in the 1920s and 1930s in Australia created one of the opportunities for an intellectual, a person who is involved, 'in the production, transmission and adaptation of ideas about society and culture', (1) to close down the WEAV in 1941. At the heart of this discussion is the shift in the definition of, 'the worker' that resulted from the shift in paradigm. It is proposed that one of the major reasons for the change in definition of the worker was as a direct result of a philosophical change from the idealism of New Liberalism to the realism wrought through changing economic conditions in the 1920s and 1930s. There are three reasons for placing the destruction of an adult education provider within a paradigm shift. The first concerns the rationale provided by writers for the failure of the Workers' Educational Association (WEA) in Australia to maintain education to workers. Commentators such as Bob Boughton, Tim Rowse, and Lucy Taksa, all of whom are historians, have advanced a rationale that is based on the concept of social class. (2) The article considers that a shift in paradigm rather than a class-based model has as much validity.
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