Education 16 - 19: In Transition

ISBN-13: 9781138481299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 156 str.

Eric MacFarlane

Opis

Published in 1993, this book considers the needs of older teenage students and the various forms of provision made for them.  At a time of rapid change the author assesses the significance of current trends and recent legislation for managers, teachers and lecturers in schools and colleges catering for this age group.　

 

O autorze

Eric Macfarlane has taught in, and been head of, both secondary modern and grammar schools. He was founding principal of Queen Mary's College, one of Hampshire's pioneering sixth-form colleges, and has been an LEA adviser, examiner and assessor of several national initiatives to improve the learning and teaching processes in schools, colleges and universities. Whilst principal of Queen Mary's College, he was seconded to Keble College for a year to assist with the Oxford Department of Education's introduction of a school-based teacher-training course. He worked at the University of Surrey and Birkbeck College promoting the Enterprise in Higher Education project, before becoming academic staff adviser/trainer in University College, London. Eric has had a long association with out-of-school learning initiatives and was chair of the Governing Council of the Active Training and Education Trust. He received the OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 1988.