ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the many international visits and exchanges made by educationalists to and from the West Riding during Alec Clegg’s time in office and in his retirement. It examines some of the ways that Clegg addressed groups of teachers and administrators across the English-speaking world during his time in office. The chapter discusses the career of Clegg as a starting point in exploring the reaches of related ideas of education through art and increasing the humanity of the classroom in efforts to reconstruct educational relationships in the post-war world. The pursuit of the global Clegg leads to identify parallel histories of individuals loosely associated with one another but committed, in spite of differences in geographical location, to an education uniting head, heart and hand. Within this prosopographical framing, Clegg’s efforts to enhance the experience of schooling in the West Riding of Yorkshire can be seen to have had deep and extensive roots, and a wider global context.
