Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New... - 9783031359545

Sir George Trevelyan, Residential Adult Education and the New Age'To Open the Immortal Eye'\nAuthor(s): Sharon Clancy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031359545, 978-3031359545\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College [tel] and the tenure of Sir George Trevelyan as its first warden. Trevelyan is acknowledged as the godfather of new-age spiritualism in the UK and is credited with the development of eclectic and esoteric learning opportunities in arts, traditional crafts, culture and ecology. Embodying the spirit of a new national drive for optimism and enterprise in the post-war period, Trevelyan, and his contemporaries at other colleges, took risks and innovated in new pedagogical approaches to adult education, capturing the imagination of hundreds of students,.