Readings in Post-Compulsory Education

by Hillier, Yvonne; Thompson, Anne

• ISBN13: 9780826472946
• ISBN10: 082647294X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-30
• Publisher: Continuum Intl Pub Group

Summary

The editors provide an illuminating commentary to eleven key articles covering the main issues affecting the post-compulsory education sector today. Contributions include an analysis of what influences students to drop out from their learning programmes, how the participation of hard-to-reach learners can be widened, how adults with basic skills can be encouraged to learn, and how research can help make sense of the 'muddle' of middle management in Further Education colleges. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	ix
Foreword by Andrew Morris	xvi
Acknowledgements	xviii
1 A Case for Practitioner Research	1	(16)
Yvonne Hillier and Anne Thompson
2 Researching Workplace Basic Skills Policy in the United Kingdom: Towards a Comprehensive Model of Research Methodologies - Ways, and Means, to an End	17	(22)
Fiona Frank
3 Research Journeys: Collaborative Qualitative Research into Learners' Views on Progress and Achievement in Literacy and Numeracy	39	(15)
Jane Ward
4 My Time: Widening and Increasing Participation of Hard-to-Reach Learners through Provision at the Interface of Education and Primary Health Care	54	(20)
Michael Lilley, Emma Twigg and Maggie Keane
5 Destination Drop-out? Learners' Perspectives on the Long-Term Impact of Drop-out from Full-Time Education	74	(15)
Helen Kenwright
6 Beyond Common Sense to a Common Sense	89	(20)
Christine Tyler
7 Modelling the Muddle: Making Sense through Research	109	(17)
Ann R.J. Briggs
8 Action Research: A Model for Improvement?	126	(22)
Sue Cousin
9 Formulating 'Facts' about Flexibility in Further Education	148	(13)
Roger Harrison, Julia Clarke and Mahnaz Marashi
10 Insider to Outsider: A Personal Research Journey	161	(11)
Ros Clow
11 The Potential for Realism as a Best Methodological Option: or, What Works Best and for Whom?	172	(17)
Norman Crowther
12 Attitude Measurement to Bridge the Post-16 Gap	189	(23)
Glen Williams, Bob Whittome and Phil Watts
Appendix: The Process of Making Awards	212	(4)
Peter Davies and Leo Salter
Index	216