イギリスにおけるイブニング・インスティテュートの成立と展開

―1920年代のロンドン州議会の成人教育事業を中心に―

抄録

  Three main organizations, that is, the University Extra-mural Department, the Workers' Educational Association and the Local Education Authority (LEA), have taken charge of the English adult educational system since the first half of the 20th century. This paper deals with the evening institutes for non-vocational adult education by the London County Council, which was one of the leading LEAs in England.

  A bold reform of the evening education system resulted in the establishment of the Literary Institutes, Women's Institutes and Men's Institutes. The Literary Institutes provided the citizens of London with liberal education, and tried to bring the humanities and their living environments together. Practical, domestic and recreational subjects were taught, and also social and extracurricular activities were encouraged in the Women's and Men's Institutes for the development of local communities.

  So we arrive at our conclusion that the experiment, closely connected with post-elementary education in the County of London, was a new type of adult education service for the general public, which evolved from ordinary evening schools, and was different from the traditional adult education movement established by various voluntary bodies, which chiefly aimed to extend higher education. Besides it was an epoch-making policy from which adult education work by the other LEAs have descended.