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The People's University: A Centennial History of the Canterbury Workers' Educational Association 19152015
Ian Dougherty
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Description for The People's University: A Centennial History of the Canterbury Workers' Educational Association 19152015
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black and white illustrations, 8 colour pages. BIC Classification: 1MBN; JNB; JNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
From its earliest days in a cold, rented room in a former Christchurch warehouse, the Canterbury Workers' Educational Association has been a pioneering provider of adult education, enriching, and sometimes even transforming, the lives of thousands of men and women. Through its box and traveling library schemes, inspired by the charismatic James Shelley, it took adult education to nearly every nook and cranny of the Canterbury and Westland provinces from the 1920s. In The People's University, widely published historian Ian Dougherty tells the fascinating and important story of this resilient association over its first 100 years and of the enthusiastic ... Read more
From its earliest days in a cold, rented room in a former Christchurch warehouse, the Canterbury Workers' Educational Association has been a pioneering provider of adult education, enriching, and sometimes even transforming, the lives of thousands of men and women. Through its box and traveling library schemes, inspired by the charismatic James Shelley, it took adult education to nearly every nook and cranny of the Canterbury and Westland provinces from the 1920s. In The People's University, widely published historian Ian Dougherty tells the fascinating and important story of this resilient association over its first 100 years and of the enthusiastic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Canterbury University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Christchurch, New Zealand
ISBN
9781927145593
SKU
V9781927145593
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Ref
99-3
About Ian Dougherty
Ian Dougherty has worked as a print and broadcasting journalist and professional historian for nearly four decades. He is the author of more than 20 books on New Zealand history, biography, and culture.
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