All Outputs (19)

Using nursery rhymes to develop children's knowledge and understanding of the past (2005)
Journal Article

Low achieving pupils regularly attend secondary school; motivational factors (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Youth work (2005)
Book Chapter

Union learning representatives: the deliverers of CPD for Scottish teachers (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The technology boundary: A strategy for bridging the gap (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The aim of this demonstration is to promote discussion regarding strategies that enable teachers to concentrate upon the pedagogy of e-learning design, rather than how to cope with technology. The domains of academia and technology have traditionall... Read More about The technology boundary: A strategy for bridging the gap.

Challenging approaches with children who challenge (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Teaching citizenship through learning about people's lives in the past (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision (2005)
Journal Article

The study focuses on a group of young people for whom conventional school placements had broken down and were attending vocational courses at an FE college while still of compulsory school age. The students had been excluded by, or had failed to atte... Read More about Recovering potential: Factors associated with success in engaging challenging students with alternative pre-16 provision.

Evaluation of the critical skills programme in the success @ excellence in cities action zone with a focus on creativity in learning (2005)
Report

Is that 'tingling feeling' enough? Constructions of teaching and learning in further education (2005)
Journal Article

This paper is concerned with changing constructions of teaching and learning in the further education (FE) sector in England. It explores how current changes may be affecting the development of lecturers' professional identity, drawing upon a small-s... Read More about Is that 'tingling feeling' enough? Constructions of teaching and learning in further education.

Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: The construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice (2005)
Journal Article

Further education colleges in England offer a wide range of post-school education and training provision. Recently they have undergone major transformations that have resulted in considerable changes to the work of those teaching in them. In this pap... Read More about Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: The construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice.

I call myself a mature student. That one word makes all the difference. Reflections on adult learners' experiences (2005)
Journal Article

Vers un mouvement social européen? (2005)
Book Chapter

Hanging in or shaping a future: Defining a role for vocationally related learning in a 'knowledge' society (2005)
Journal Article

This paper explores the changing roles and purposes of vocational education for young people in what has been called a 'knowledge' society, using the General National Vocational Qualification (GNVQ) as an example. This qualification dominated the bro... Read More about Hanging in or shaping a future: Defining a role for vocationally related learning in a 'knowledge' society.

Qualitative Control: A Review of the Framework for Assessing Qualitative Evaluation (2005)
Journal Article

This article takes a balanced look at the recent publication Quality in Qualitative Evaluation: a Framework for Assessing Research Evidence (Liz Spencer, Jane Ritchie, Jane Lewis and Lucy Dillon), published by the UK Cabinet Office. Set in a context... Read More about Qualitative Control: A Review of the Framework for Assessing Qualitative Evaluation.

My 'self' and the wider world (2005)
Report

Improving police probationer training through a democratic research process (2005)
Journal Article

Following a damning report on the state of police probationer training in England and Wales by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary, entitled Training Matters (2002), the Home Office (2003), as part of its modernisation programme for the police... Read More about Improving police probationer training through a democratic research process.

Importance and impotence? learning, outcomes and research in further education (2005)
Journal Article

One of the defining features of the Teaching and Learning Research Programme is that it ‘aims to improve outcomes for learners of all ages in teaching and learning contexts across the UK’. This article argues that, although it is possible to use the... Read More about Importance and impotence? learning, outcomes and research in further education.

Contemporary struggle in Europe: Anti-power or counter-power? (2005)
Journal Article