The Common Good: Raymond Williams,
Adult Education and Social Change
Delivered by Alan Tuckett OBE
Director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE, UK)
11th April 2005 at the Taliesin Theatre
University of Wales Swansea.
*A transcript of the lecture will be available here shortly
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 Alan
Tuckett OBE is Director of the National Institute of
Adult Continuing Education, having worked previously for the
voluntary sector in Brighton and for the ILEA. He started
Adult Learners’ Week in the UK in 1992, and supported
its adoption by UNESCO, and its spread to almost 40 Countries.
He is a member of the Government’s Skills Alliance,
a Special Professor in Continuing Education at the University
of Nottingham and an Honorary Professor in the Centre for
Labour Market Studies and the Institute of Lifelong Learning
at Leicester University.
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The Raymond Williams Memorial Lecture in Wales
Raymond
Williams (1921-88) was one of post-war Britain's most influential
and prolific thinkers. From 1946-61 Williams worked as a teacher
in university adult education, and in these years he produced such
seminal works as Culture and Society (1958) and The Long Revolution
(1961).
For further information visit Swansea University's Welsh Writers
On Line:
www.swan.ac.uk/english/crew/welshwriters/rwilliams.htm
Previous Raymond Williams
Lectures in Wales
| 1989 |
Professor Dai Smith (then Professor at the University of Wales,
College of Cardiff) - "Raymond Williams and His Country",
organised by NIACE Cymru (National Institute for Adult Continuing
Education Wales) and the Workers Educational Association South
Wales in Pandy |
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| 1990 |
Stephen Yeo, Principal, Ruskin College, Oxford - "Williams
the Uncomfortable", organised by Coleg Harlech, North Wales
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| 1991 |
Bea Campbell, Author and Journalist - "Women Towards
2000", organised by University of Wales, Swansea |
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| 1992 |
Professor Stuart Hall, Professor of Sociology, The Open University
- "Culture, Community, Nation", organised by the Open
University in Cardiff |
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| 1993 |
Professor Graham Martin, Open University - "The Novels
of Raymond Williams", organised by the Workers Educational
Association South Wales in Abergavenny |
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| 1994 |
Professor Patrick Parrinder, Department of English, University
of Reading - "Politics, Leaders and the National Curriculum",
organised by the University of Wales, Aberystwyth |
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| 1995 |
Professor Terry Eagleton, Wharton Professor of English Literature,
St. Catherine's College, Oxford - "Communities, Universities
and Raymond Williams" organised by UACE(Universities Assoc
for Continuing Education) in Swansea |
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| 1996 |
Michael D Higgins, Minister for Arts, Culture & the Gaeltacht,
Ireland - "The Migrants Return - A Personal Reflection
on the Importance of Raymond Williams", organised by BBC
Wales in Cardiff |
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| 1997 |
Lady Angelsey, Lady Brunner, Rhiannon Bevan -"Women's
Institutes and Lifelong Learning", organised by the National
Federation of Women's Institutes in Anglesey |
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| 1998 |
Professor Bob Fryer, Principal of Northern College and chair
of the Government's National Advisory Group for Continuing Education
and Lifelong Learning - "The Legacy of Raymond Williams
to Adult Education", organised by Department for Continuing
Education and Professional Development, Cardiff University |
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| 1999 |
Cynog Dafis, Welsh Assembly Minister and Member of Parliament
UK Govt. - "Community of Languages", organised by
NIACE Dysgu Cymru and the Welsh Language Board in association
with the Workers Educational Association South Wales in Powys |
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| 2000 |
Edwina Hart, Assembly Minister, The National Assembly of Wales
- "Equality, Social Justice and the Learning Agenda",
at Cardiff University |
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| 2001 |
No Lecture |
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| 2002 |
Sheila Drury, ELWa (Education & Learning Wales), at Aberystwyth
University |
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| 2003 |
Professor Bob Fryer, NHSU, "Learning Risk and Social
Change", at Bangor University |
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| 2004 |
Jane Davidson, Minister for Lifelong Learning, The National
Assembly for Wales "The Challenges of Lifelong Learning",
at Trinity College, Carmarthen |
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