ABSTRACT

In Britain when we look to community education’s literature for identification as to its origins we find them explained primarily by reference to H. Henry Morris and the Cambridgeshire Colleges. For Widlake community education seems to be a pacifist army riding to the rescue of a doomed world, the expression of a fundamental force in human affairs mystically rising to the surface when its hour is at hand. The community educator’s response to unemployment is generally to attempt to educate an acceptance of unemployment into those who will have to experience it. Network and other Community Education Development Centre (CEDC) publications give us no real evidence of any radical break with the home-school approach of community education as enunciated by Midwinter. The Director of CEDC is, as we mentioned, its founder, John Rennie. CEDC is very different to the Ford Motor Company, but there are common elements.