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Using metaphor as a navigation device in e-learning (2004)
Presentation / Conference
Falconer, L., & Aburrow, Y. (2004, September). Using metaphor as a navigation device in e-learning. Presented at ALT-C 2004, Exeter, UK

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.

Review of training and development in the police federation of England and Wales (2004)
Report
Davies, J. D., Kushner, S., Lee, J., & Simmons, J. (2004). Review of training and development in the police federation of England and Wales

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.

Communicating environmental knowledges: Young people and the risk society (2004)
Journal Article
Jones, V. (2004). Communicating environmental knowledges: Young people and the risk society. Social and Cultural Geography, 5(2), 213-228. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360410001690222

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)
Journal Article
Brine, J., & Waller, R. (2004). Working-class women on an Access course: Risk, opportunity and (re)constructing identities. Gender and Education, 16(1), 97-113. https://doi.org/10.1080/0954025032000170363

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
Whitehead, J., & Clough, N. (2004). Pupils, the forgotten partners in education action zones. Journal of Education Policy, 19(2), 215-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144341042000186354

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)
Journal Article
Jones, V., & Hitchings, R. (2004). Living with plants and the exploration of botanical encounter within human geographic research practice. Ethics, Place and Environment, 7(1-2), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1366879042000264741

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)
Journal Article
Gordon, A., & Mathers, A. (2004). State restructuring and trade union realignment: The pensions struggle in France. Capital and Class, 28(2), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/030981680408300102

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)
Journal Article
Attwood, G., Croll, P., & Hamilton, J. (2004). Challenging students in further education: Themes arising from a study of innovative FE provision for excluded and disaffected young people. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 28(1), 107-119. https://doi.org/10.1080/0309877032000161850

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
Newman, E., Taylor, A., Whitehead, J., & Planel, C. (2004). ‘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. International Journal of Phytoremediation, 27(3), 285-298. https://doi.org/10.1080/0261976042000290804

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.

Voices from the margins: The perceptions of pupils with EBD about their educational experiences (2004)
Book Chapter
Davies, J. D. (2004). Voices from the margins: The perceptions of pupils with EBD about their educational experiences. In P. Clough, P. Garner, J. Pardeck, & F. Yuen (Eds.), Handbook of Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (299-316). SAGE Publications

This chapter develops the work of an earlier publication: On the Margins: the educational experience of 'problem' pupils, (Staffordshire, Trentham Books) which won a prize in the TES/NASEN Book of the Year. The chapter seeks to establish the perspec... Read More about Voices from the margins: The perceptions of pupils with EBD about their educational experiences.

‘I really hated school, and couldn’t wait to get out!’: Reflections on ‘a wasted opportunity’ amongst access to HE students. (2004)
Journal Article
Waller, R. (2004). ‘I really hated school, and couldn’t wait to get out!’: Reflections on ‘a wasted opportunity’ amongst access to HE students. Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 2(1), 24-43

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..