ABSTRACT
The Education Act of 1870, was a definite victory for the bourg eoisie, but the contradiction within it which resulted in the School Boards, actually produced a base from which an attack upon the education established by the Act could be launched. So for them it’s a re-awakening or an awakening for the first time to the idea that education has a part to play in their own development as humans and for the purposes ultimately of self and collective emancipation. Community education consciously seeks to involve the working class in schooling, by way of home-school links and attractive school-based activities. When the fieldwork is begun with various groups in Sheffield, we hoped to discover whether and how the projects in which they were involved, facilitated a self-education process. The discussion of Northern College’s educational philosophy brings us to our suggested strategy for real and significant educational change.
