Ed. Space (Episode 3): "Creating Sites of Community Education and Democracy" - Neil Hopkins on Henry Morris, the Cambridgeshire village college system, and democratic education

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In this episode - recorded 16 April 2020 - Neil Hopkins discusses his recent article on Henry Morris and his Cambridgeshire village college system, and the implications of both for current thinking about the possibilities and problems of democratic education.

Neil Hopkins is Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Bedfordshire; details of how to contact him can be found on his faculty webpage here.

Neil's article on Morris and the village colleges has been published online by BERJ (British Educational Research Journal). You must have an individual or institutional subscription to access the piece; if you don't have a subscription, contact Neil (authors are usually given access to a certain number of free downloads of their work).

Though we weren't able to include it in the published version of our conversation, Lewis and Oli spoke briefly with Neil about the clarity of his writing. Neil has spoken in the past of Orwell's influence on his work, so here's a link to Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language."