Conflicting Visions, Divergent Strategies
Watson Thomson and the Cold War Politics of Adult Education in Saskatchewan, 1944-6
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3983384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael R Welton, Michael Welton (0000-0001-6097-2010, Dalhousie University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Pages | 111 |
| Publication date | 1986-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/25142675 |
| OpenAlex | W1674731988 |
| Language | EN |
USING WATSON THOMSON'S adult educational work with Tommy Douglas' CCF from late 1944 to early 1946 as an anchor point, this paper has several goals. First, to explicate Thomson's transformative-communitarian socialist vision and thereby confront the inadequacies of the communist-social democratic framing of the history of the Canadian left; second, to illuminate the tensions on the left at an axial moment in its history; third, to examine the specific failings of the social democratic imagination and political will; finally, to insert Watson Thomson into the social history of adult education and western Canadian radicalism. SE BASANT SUR LE travail en education des adultes de Watson Thomson dans le parti CCF de Tommy Douglas de 1944 au debut de 1946, cet article poursuit plusieurs buts. Il se propose d'abord d'expliquer la vision socialiste transformatrice communitaire de Thomson et ainsi de confronter les lacunes de l'approche communiste-social democrate a l'histoire de la gauche canadienne. Il veut ensuite illuminer les tensions de la gauche a un moment axial de son histoire. En troisieme lieu, il examine les defauts specifiques a l'imagination sociale democratique et a la volonte politique. Enfin, il inserre Watson Thomson dans l'histoire sociale de l'education des adultes et du radicalisme de l'Ouest canadien
Cold war · Economic history · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Vision · Watson · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Computer Science · History · Law · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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