Understanding the further education sector : a critical guide to policies and practices / / Susan Wallace

• Autore: Wallace Susan
• Pubblicazione: Northwich : , : Critical Publishing, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (130 p.)
• Disciplina: 378
• Soggetto topico: Community colleges; Education, Higher - Social aspects; Education, Higher
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Understanding the Further Education Sector; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Meet the author; 1 Introduction: the frog waiting for a kiss; Chapter aims; Introduction; Derek's farewell speech; What's in a name?; The fairy tale sector; Finding your way around this book; Taking it further; References; 2 Parity or prejudice? The origins and purpose of FE; Chapter aims; Introduction; The Mechanics' Institutes; The Radical Educators; 'Useful knowledge'; Education? What did they mean?; Education versus working for a living; Education, work and social class ; What today's sector has inheritedApprenticeships; Equality of opportunity? The Butler Act; A century later...; Playing the game; 1986-1992: All change!; Ch-ch-ch-changes; Taking it further; References; 3 Building status and dismantling the mutual damnation model; Chapter aims; What is the mutual damnation model?; The vocational qualification framework; Does a vocational curriculum necessarily have to be instrumental?; Education, training and employability; Teacher, trainer, instructor, assessor?; Superteacher or masterchef?; Taking it further; References ; 4 Ladders, weddings and machinery: reading the White PapersChapter aims; Introduction; The language of the White Papers; Here come the skills: A New Training Initiative, 1981; Standards and competence: Working Together - Education and Training, 1986; All change! Education and Training for the 21st Century, 1991; Choice and competitiveness: White Papers 1992-95; Summary so far; Metaphors we live by; What we say and how we say it; Taking it further; References; 5 Looking for FE: how the sector is portrayed in fiction and the media; Chapter aims; Introduction ; Mr Squeers and 'vocational education'Mr Kipps and the rat in the drainpipe; Wilt meets Meat One; Buffy and her gang; To boldly go?; HIGNFY; Taking it further; References; 6 The Martian's eye view: what new teachers see; Chapter aims; Introduction; The journals; Reflections about learners; Reflections about teaching; Reflections about policies and college structures; So what did they expect?; Taking it further; 7 Playing up and dumbing down? From liberal studies to functional skills; Chapter aims; Education or training: is there a difference?; Pring on liberal and vocational education ; Unity or parity? The qualifications debateLiberal studies: who wanted them and what were they for?; From core skills to key skills to functional skills; Taking it further; References; 8 'The culture of respect': motivation and behaviour in FE; Chapter aims; Introduction; Respect; Disengagement, non-compliance and challenging behaviour; Analysing what happened; Disengagement; Non-compliance; Challenging behaviour; Typical classroom behaviour?; Respect, rules, razzmatazz and rewards; Looking beyond the surface: reading and interpreting learner behaviour; Taking it further; References ; 9 Letters from the front: insider discourse
• Sommario/riassunto: An accessible and critical sourcebook about the FE sector for all those working towards QTLS.
• Titolo autorizzato: Understanding the further education sector
• ISBN: 1-909330-23-X; 1-909330-24-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810303103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Further Education