The article analyzes the contribution of the outstanding philanthropist of education L. A. Shanyavskaya to the implementation of the project to create a non-state People’s University in Moscow ...(1908), which can rightfully be considered as an accessible social elevator for thousands of people in obtaining higher education despite the gender, class, nationality and educational level. L. A. Shanyavskaya’s personality was paid special attention to at the international scientific and practical conference "Gender Studies: Theory, Scientific Schools, Practice", held on March 4, 2021 at the Russian State University for the Humanities. It became possible to execute a will of A. L. Shanyavsky because of her practical mind, diplomacy, perseverance. The authors reconstruct the dramatic events of the struggle for the people’s university, using historical and biographic analysis and relying on archival documents. Before his death in 1905 A. L. Shanyavsky drew up a spiritual testament in which he allocated funds and instructed his wife Lydia Alekseevna to open the People’s University in Moscow until October 3, 1908. Everything went according to plan in the beginning. Moscow City Duma accepted Shanyavsky’s gift and approved of the Regulations on the People’s University. However, the Ministry of Public Education, represented by A. N. Schwartz, trying to take control of a new educational institution and prevent free-thinking, did everything to slow down the project which was already under way. L. A. Shanyavskaya united the best forces of the intellectuals (in the person of M. M. Kovalevsky, N. V. Speransky, A. F. Koni and others), appealed personally to the Minister of Education A. N. Schwartz, Moscow city mayor N. I. Guchkov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers P. A. Stolypin, and achieved the fulfillment of the will at the cost of incredible personal efforts.
Abstract Edward Gardner Lewis and Mabel Gertrude Lewis, Missouri-based publishers of the Woman's Magazine, sought to improve politics by educating and enfranchising women. In 1908 they founded the ...American Woman's League, a national organization that, among other benefits, offered correspondence courses through the People's University. In 1911 they transformed the league into the American Woman's Republic, combining the university with a government parallel to the United States'. Taking courses in politics and voting in republic elections, women trained for future participation in the U.S. government. The republic thus made education the center of its strategy to attain and prepare women for suffrage. After winning the vote, women would use their training to clean up politics and to pass beneficent legislation. Though it attracted many members, the republic survived only a few years. Its story suggests both the promise of education as a tool of political reform and the obstacles to unconventional strategies for change.
This article considers the role played by adult education in a temporary community called Resurrection City in 1968. It draws on primary source documents and oral testimonies from three archives. ...Social movement theory and the ideas of Freire and Gramsci provide a conceptual framework. In May 1968 around 6,000 poor people from across the United States converged on Washington D.C. to dramatise poverty. They established their own city among the Washington monuments and determined to remain until their demands to end poverty were met. The city lasted six weeks before being closed down. Resurrection City has been largely regarded as a failure in the historiography of the civil rights movement. This neglects the impact on participants of the adult education activities which characterised daily life in the space made possible by the initiative. Adult education, including a Poor People's University at Resurrection City, brought together the poor from different racial, cultural and educational backgrounds to discuss, reflect on and engage with the issue of poverty. Resurrection City provided a template for other social movements which followed; participants found common ground which transcended their differences in background and developed a deeper understanding of how to advance their struggle for economic justice.
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This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to "undesirable" applicants ...to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion of solutions to the Year 2000 International Mathematical Olympiad, with emphasis on the comparison of the olympiad problems to those given at the Moscow University entrance examinations.The second part of the book provides a historical background of a unique phenomenon in mathematics, which flourished in the 1970s-80s in the USSR. Specially designed math problems were used not to test students' ingenuity and creativity but, rather, as "killer problems," to deny access to higher education to "undesirable" applicants. The focus of this part is the 1980 essay, "Intellectual Genocide", written by B Kanevsky and V Senderov. It is being published for the first time. Also featured is a little-known page of the Soviet history, a rare example of the oppressed organizing to defend their dignity. This is the story of the so-called Jewish People's University, the inception of which is associated with Kanevsky, Senderov and Bella Subbotovskaya.
Examines the concept of a "people's university" in the South African context, focusing particularly on the role of historically black universities. Argues that South African blacks feel universities ...in general do not reflect their views, values, and aspirations, and that black universities should be more representative in their governance structures and in the involvement of the black community. (MSE)
God wanted Medina to be the first cradle from which Islam took the basis for building his community after he immigrated to it. The Quba Mosque was the first building block of a new civilization that ...was based on piety from the first day. (The mosque) became the first thing that came to the minds of Muslims when they planned a city, a year that their Prophet enacted, and they followed it after him. And the distinctive character of this civilization has become, expressing its close connection with the Lord of this universe, and marking its mission that it must undertake in this world. The verses: (Read in the name of your Lord who created. Created man from a clot. Read and your Lord is the Most Generous. He who taught with the pen. The knowledge of man unless he knows) motivates Muslims to learn to read and write, and they are two strong ways to take the causes of knowledge and the nation’s rise from the depths of ignorance and stagnation into life . The first place for that was the mosque, and the authentic hadiths continued to direct the minds of the people to take the mosque as a school in which they learn what matters to them from knowledge, and gain knowledge, such as his saying, peace be upon him, (Whoever enters this mosque to learn good and teach him is like a mujahid for the sake of God. And he said in another hadith: (When a people gather in one of the houses of God, reciting and studying the Book of God among them, tranquility will not descend upon them, and they are covered with mercy and boxing. It is not surprising that the mosque is a popular university in which he teaches lessons and sermons for men and women alike, taking all his mental capabilities and self-esteem. And each of them has the right to seek the mosque in order to fulfill the noble hadith (Do not prevent the slaves of God from the mosques of God). History has preserved for us a wonderful example of the participation of women in the gatherings of gratitude and in the halls of the mosque, as Caliph Umar, may God be pleased with him, raised an orator saying: (Are they not overreacting in the charity of women, for if they were honorable in this world or piety with God, the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers be upon him, would have been the first to you. And peace ...) Then a woman arose and said: Oh Omar, God gives us and forbids us, does God Almighty not say: (... and you brought one of them a vantage, so do not take anything from him) and Umar ponder what she said, so he discerns the correctness of her saying, so he says: A woman has hit and Omar is wrong. The mosque was during the era of prophethood, and it continued in the early ages of Islam as the center of intellectual, educational, moral, literary and social guidance ... and it was an institute of knowledge, in which the Companions and their followers graduated. And in which the measure was the confrontation major events. And from it Muslim armies set off, and brigades of princes were held. And from it were issued fatwas that ruled life and its problems to be, and in it was the judgment of the Messenger and his companions, and the reception of delegations and the conclusion of treaties and charters of peace. And in it, the Messenger’s books were issued to kings and rulers.
Cultural and educational work after the Second World War in northeastern Bosnia, in addition to cultural, educational and artistic societies, took place in various cultural institutions, where ...cultural centers and public universities stand out. The houses of culture, in cooperation with societies, universities and various cultural and educational sections, organized events, lectures and various cultural and educational contents. Their importance was especially pronounced in the smaller rural areas of northeastern Bosnia, where they were the center of cultural and educational work. People's universities, as cultural and educational institutions, were supposed to nurture scientific and lecturing work, and to politically enlighten the population of urban and rural areas of northeastern Bosnia through various lectures. In essence, public universities were public schools in which ideologically appropriate lectures with various topics were mostly held and they played a significant role in the creation of a socialist society. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to point out the role and importance of the establishment of these cultural and educational institutions in northeastern Bosnia, and their overall contribution to the cultural and educational awareness of the population of northeastern Bosnia.
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