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Article: From idealism to realism: the Workers' Educational Association of Victoria 1920-1941.
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- History of Education Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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On 21 March 1941 the Council of the Workers' Educational Association of Victoria (WEAV), voted itself out of existence. This article discusses how a shift in a philosophical paradigm that took place in the 1920s and 1930s in Australia created one of the opportunities for an intellectual, a person who is involved, 'in the production, transmission and adaptation of ideas about society and culture', (1) to close down the WEAV in 1941. At the heart of this discussion is the shift in the definition of, 'the worker' that resulted from the shift in paradigm. It is proposed that one of the major reasons for the change in definition of the worker was as a direct result of a ...