Full Description
Exploring Practitioner Research in Further Education unpacks how people in the Further Education (FE) sector undertake research and the impact it has had on the world around them.
Using a newly developed writing framework and offering a practitioner view of approaching and conducting work in the FE system, this book demystifies the process of undertaking research by showcasing the readers' peers at various stages of the research journey. It draws together research work from general and specialist FE colleges, adult and community learning, offender learning, work-based training, and college-based higher education across the UK. Within these contexts, it makes links to theoretical and practical arguments regarding the usefulness of practitioner-led research. Uniquely, the chapters also explore practitioner- or sector-led models for developing practitioner research within a classroom, within an organisation, and across multiple organisations.
Including a range of diverse voices to represent the breadth of FE, this book provides a framework for research, in addition to a space for each author's authentic voice. This will be a useful text for all teacher educators, professional development leads, senior leaders, and practising teachers and lecturers across the FE sector.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Mapping the sector: further education research organisations
Part 1: Developing pedagogy
1) Changing the lens: developing teaching practice through taking a diffractive and dialogical approach to self and peer observation.
2) Shaping practice and pedagogy in offender learning.
3) Teach the Teacher: tackling a failure mindset with GCSE resit learners in Further Education through a 'bridging the empathy gap' intervention.
4) Investigating the teaching of agriculture in further education in England
Part 2: Overcoming barriers in the sector
5) Reducing barriers to learning opportunities for healthcare professionals to improve attendance.
6) Time: The Hidden Challenge for Course Leaders for College-Based Higher Education
7) Making Learning Diaries Meaningful for Learners in the Community
Part 3: Models for practitioner research in FE
8) Coleg Sir Gar Coleg Ceredigion: The Evolution of our Culture of Curiosity
9) The Progress of Research and Scholarship in Scottish Colleges: charting some key developments.
10) The Power of Community: Developing Intergenerational Learning Spaces.
11) Developing the capacity for, and use of, practitioner research: The Research College Group.
Part 4: Stories of leadership
12) Unblocking the FE leadership pipeline: understanding today's senior leaders in order to inspire tomorrow's.
Conclusion
