Identity and Resistance in Further Education

• Main Authors: Bennett, Pete, Smith, Rob
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2018; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Research in Vocational Education
• Subjects: Adult Education; Adult education teachers; Adult education teachers-Great Britain-Identification; Alan Davis; Anisa Ali; Anne Groll; Bennett; Catherine Gallagher; Chris Davies; Claire Saunders; Continuing education; David Wise; Donna Drew; Education; Education Policy & Politics; Educational leadership; Educational Research; Elizabeth A. Stevenson; Emma Love; England; Erwachsenenbildner; Erwachsenenbildung; Further Education; Großbritannien; Higher Education; Identity; Jennifer Addo; Joe Harrison; Joel Petrie; Julie A. Wilde; Kay Sidebottom; Kirstie Harrington; Lebenslanges Lernen; Lifelong Learning; Lou Mycroft; Matt O'Leary; Matthew Parsons; Post-compulsory; Post-Compulsory Education; Professionalität; Resistance; Rob Smith; Sandi Bates; School management, special education; Smith; Soziale Rolle; Study of Higher Education; Teaching & Learning; Weiterbildner; FE Professionalism; FE Manager; Market Accountability; Pre-service Trainee Teachers; FE Sector; Nick Peim; EBL; English FE; Individual Teacher Identities; FE Teacher Educator; Critical Reflective Practice; Ofsted’s Role; FE Tutor; Graded Observations; Strategic Action Field; Idealised Teaching Environment; Reflective Practice; Pedagogic Authority; ETF; College’s Academic Achievements; Institutional Performativity; FE Teacher; Teacher Education Tutor; Lingfield Report; Graded Lesson Observations

In recent years, Further Education has reached a crossroads, with questions being asked about its function, aims and focus, as well as querying the role of the FE teacher, the key aspects of the curriculum and which values should inform FE pedagogy. Identity and Resistance in Further Education explo...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" - identity and resistance in further education -- SECTION I Setting the scene -- 2 'Hello . . . who am I?' - the change agent or the game player of performativity? -- 3 The teacher educator experience: 'guardians of the pedagogy'? -- 4 Through the looking glass: reflection and teacher identity -- 5 Enquiry-based learning and adult learners: a discussion -- 6 Something out of nothing: reflecting on the emerging self as teacher -- SECTION II Policy and pain -- 7 Understanding the business of failure: the educational disconnect between systems and so-called learners -- 8 FE teacher identity: marketisation and metaphor -- 9 Character building: how accommodating is the FE Newbuild™? -- 10 "Feeding the monster": vocational pedagogy and the further education policy present -- 11 Faith, apostasy and professionalism in FE -- SECTION III Creativity and resistance -- 12 The experience of Ofsted: fear, judgement and symbolic violence -- 13 Identity and autonomy in lifelong education -- 14 Subverting the pseudo-science of inspection with research-informed practice and pedagogic principles: an ungraded approach to the evaluation of teachers -- 15 Teaching an old dog new tricks: developing instructor and teacher identities in a military context: a conversation -- 16 Constellations of practice -- 17 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell': discourses of autonomy and reason in further education -- 18 Conclusion: identity and the collective purpose of further education -- List of contributors -- Index