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This final chapter looks across the different examples of, and perspectives on, Co-operative Higher Education presented in this volume. It looks backwards and forwards. As a starting point, it takes some of the recommendations of the 1919 Ministry of Reconstruction’s Final Report on Adult Education as a way to consider how a Co-operative University (CU) might achieve long-held ambitions to provide Higher Education for a mass population. It looks at how the different experiments fit together and may be understood en bloc. It also provides some reflections on the prospects for how a federated CU might function, as we consider the potential and possibilities for Higher Education unlocked through co-operation.
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On the history of the Co-operative College, see books forthcoming; on the history of the movement’s ambitions and the historical antecedents of the current campaign for a co-operative University, see Tom Woodin in this volume; and Yeo, S. 2015. The Co-operative University? In Co-operation, Learning and Co-operative Values: Contemporary Issues in Education, ed. Tom Woodin, 131–46, especially, 138–40. Abingdon: Routledge.
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Yeo, 138–40.
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Yeo, 138–40.
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It might be noted that this is highly conditional, and any aspects may have changed by the time of publication.
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Facer, K., J. Thorpe, and L. Shaw. 2012. Co-operative Education and Schools: An Old Idea for New Times? Power and Education 4 (3): 327–41. https://doi.org/10.2304/power.2012.4.3.327
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For example, see Busch, L. 2017 [2014]. Knowledge for Sale: The Neoliberal Takeover of Higher Education. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Busch, Lawrence; Murphy, S. 2017. Zombie University: Thinking Under Control. Repeater.
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On Student-as-Producer, see Mike Neary, forthcoming.
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PP (1919) [Cmd. 321], 5.
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PP (1919) [Cmd. 321], 5.
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Dobbs, 216, 221; PP (1919) [Cmd. 321], 21.
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The best account of this is found in Rose, J. 2010 [2001]. The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale UP.
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PP (1919) [Cmd. 321], 124.
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PP (1919) [Cmd. 321], 53, 57, 149.
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On the supplantation of lifelong learning for adult education, see, for example, Bowl, M. 2017. Adult Education in Neoliberal Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
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PP (1919) [Cmd. 321], 101.
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PP (1919) [Cmd. 321], 101.
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Noble, M., Ross, C. (2019). Seeking a Co-operative University: Reconstructing Adult Education and Reclaiming Higher Education as a Public Good. In: Noble, M., Ross, C. (eds) Reclaiming the University for the Public Good. Palgrave Critical University Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21625-2_13
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