« Learning for life »: Popular universities in Belgium and Germany at the turn of two centuries (19th and 20th and 20th-21st)

Warland, Genevi�ve
(2011) Third European Congress on World and Global History. Section on “Popularization of knowledge: crossed perspectives” — Location: London School of Economics and Political Science, London (14.April.2011)

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The democratizing of societies at the end of the 19th century showed to the ruling elites the necessity to educate masses, so that these could adjust and participate to the economic and social transformations of the time. Promoters of adults’ education belonged either to the progressive wing of liberal parties, or to the new workers’ parties, or even to the movement of Christian democracy. It is obvious that such an education process addressing primarily to the working classes had also to do with the formation of a political consciousness, possibly undermining political orientations and thus eventually electoral choices.

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Warland, G. (2011). « Learning for life »: Popular universities in Belgium and Germany at the turn of two centuries (19th and 20th and 20th-21st). Third European Congress on World and Global History. Section on “Popularization of knowledge: crossed perspectives”, London School of Economics and Political Science, London. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/161303