Outputs (14)

Using metaphor as a navigation device in e-learning (2004)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

ALT-C 2004
Using metaphor as a navigation device in e-learning design
Liz Falconer and Yvonne Aburrow

Background
Recognition that an electronic resource could assist in the t&l of research methods as it is a widespread subject taught in HEIs an... Read More about Using metaphor as a navigation device in e-learning.

Change in the field - changing the field: Bourdieu and the methodological practice of educational research (2004)
Journal Article

Review of training and development in the police federation of England and Wales (2004)
Report

This report emanated from a research project led by the author commissioned by the Police Federation of England and Wales in order to evaluate the extent to which the training and other support it provided for its members was appropriate to their nee... Read More about Review of training and development in the police federation of England and Wales.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel: a significant Victorian? (2004)
Journal Article

Communicating environmental knowledges: Young people and the risk society (2004)
Journal Article

In this paper I illustrate how an increased demand for the communication of environmental knowledges in contemporary society can be understood using ideas purported by the risk society thesis. In order to deepen these connections and understandings I... Read More about Communicating environmental knowledges: Young people and the risk society.

Living with plants and the exploration of botanical encounter within human geographic research practice (2004)
Journal Article

Explorations of the boundaries between human culture and non-human nature have clear ethical dimensions. Developing both from philosophical arguments about the value of such boundaries and recent empirical work following the traffic across them, we s... Read More about Living with plants and the exploration of botanical encounter within human geographic research practice.

Working-class women on an Access course: Risk, opportunity and (re)constructing identities (2004)
Journal Article

Framed by discourses of lifelong learning and widening participation, further education Access to University courses attract mature students from a range of social backgrounds. This paper focuses on eight women students who, to varying degrees, share... Read More about Working-class women on an Access course: Risk, opportunity and (re)constructing identities.

Pupils, the forgotten partners in education action zones (2004)
Journal Article

Education action zones (EAZs) involving local partnerships are one of the government's policies set up to help raise standards in pupils' performance and behaviour in areas of economic and social disadvantage. This article explores the nature of thes... Read More about Pupils, the forgotten partners in education action zones.

Challenging students in further education: Themes arising from a study of innovative FE provision for excluded and disaffected young people (2004)
Journal Article

The paper draws on a research project on innovative provision in an FE college for excluded and disaffected young people. The college offers places on vocational courses to students who are still of compulsory school age who have been excluded by or... Read More about Challenging students in further education: Themes arising from a study of innovative FE provision for excluded and disaffected young people.

‘You just can’t do it like that—it's just wrong!' impressions of French and English trainee primary teachers on exchange placement in primary schools abroad: The value of experiencing the difference (2004)
Journal Article

This paper focuses on the European policy initiative to increase the number of teachers able to teach a modern foreign language in primary schools. It particularly focuses on the exchange placement which is an integral part of a training programme ru... Read More about ‘You just can’t do it like that—it's just wrong!' impressions of French and English trainee primary teachers on exchange placement in primary schools abroad: The value of experiencing the difference.