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Qualitative Control: A Review of the Framework for Assessing Qualitative Evaluation (2005)
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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.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel: a significant Victorian? (2004)
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Communicating environmental knowledges: Young people and the risk society (2004)
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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.
Working-class women on an Access course: Risk, opportunity and (re)constructing identities (2004)
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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)
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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.
Living with plants and the exploration of botanical encounter within human geographic research practice (2004)
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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.
State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France (2004)
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May 2003 saw millions of French workers take to the streets over the issue of pensions, in mobilisations that the financial press presented as a peculiarly French summer ritual (Graham, 2003). Yet a look behind the news shows that the fight over pens... Read More about State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France.
Challenging students in further education: Themes arising from a study of innovative FE provision for excluded and disaffected young people (2004)
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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)
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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.
‘I really hated school, and couldn’t wait to get out!’: Reflections on ‘a wasted opportunity’ amongst access to HE students. (2004)
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In constructing a narrative account of our lives, we may recall experiences of schooling with a mixture of resentment and regret, and perhaps a sense of ‘wasted opportunities’. This is particularly true if school has left us with a fragile academic s... Read More about ‘I really hated school, and couldn’t wait to get out!’: Reflections on ‘a wasted opportunity’ amongst access to HE students..
The new widening participation students: Moral imperative or academic risk? (2003)
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Where have all the men gone? Have primary schools really been feminised? (2003)
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Re-engaging with education (2003)
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The paper reports a study of alternative pre- 16 provision in a college of further education for young people who were disaffected and/or non-attenders at secondary school. The data are derived from interviews with 26 of these young people who were ‘... Read More about Re-engaging with education.
Learning from GCSE coursework (2002)
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This article explores different perspectives on the nature and value of GCSE geography coursework.
Social partner or social movement? European integration and trade union renewal in Europe (2002)
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Further education participation, European expansion and European erasure (2002)
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From within the context of the planned expansion of the European Union (EU) to include the 12 applicant states from central and eastern Europe and the predicted reduction of the European financial support given to the UK, the article draws on empiric... Read More about Further education participation, European expansion and European erasure.