Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion: The Impact of Policy on Post-Compulsory Education

ISBN-13: 9780415461818 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 248 str.

Frank Coffield; Ann Hodgson

Opis

Attempts to understand the poorly understood learning sector by both talking to students and front-line staff and by interviewing the officials responsible for managing post-compulsory education and lifelong learning. It conclude that there are serious fai

Spis treści

Section 1: What are the issues?  1. The main themes  2. The context and rationale of the research and the book  Section 2: What does the research show?  3. The learners’ story  4. The policy-makers’ stories  5. The tutors’ stories  6. The story of the sector in action  7 . How inclusive is the sector?  Section 3: Overall implications  8. Alternative futures   Methodological appendix: How we developed the stories

O autorze

Frank Coffield is Professor at the Schoolo of Lifelong Education & International Development at the Institute of Education where Dr Ann Hodgson and Dr Ken Spours are also based. Dr Ian Finlay is at the University of Strathclyde.