Overview
Based on the Transforming Lives research project, this book explores the transformative power of further education. The book outlines a timely and critical approach to educational research and practice, and draws extensively on the testimonies of students and teachers to construct a model of transformative teaching and learning. It critiques reductive 'skills' policies in further education and illuminates the impact colleges and lifelong learning have on social justice outcomes for individuals, their families and communities. For trainee teachers, teachers, leaders, researchers and policy makers alike, the book presents a persuasive argument for transformative approaches to teaching and learning, and highlights the often unmeasured and under-appreciated holistic social benefits of further education.
Full Product Details
Author: Rob Smith (Birmingham City University) ,
Vicky Duckworth (Edgehill University)
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Imprint: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781447362326
ISBN 10: 1447362322
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 27 July 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
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Professional & Vocational
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""Transformative Teaching and Learning in Further Education offers a timely exploration of the powerful impact that further and adult education providers can have on the lives of disadvantaged learners and their local communities."" Educational Review"
This book is a must-read for everybody that cares about further education. It shows the important role it plays in transforming lives. Lyn Tett, University of Edinburgh and University of Huddersfield Further education totters from crisis to crisis. This book - based on innovative research with students and staff - shows how transformative teaching and learning could renew the sector and make it more responsive to community needs. John Holford, University of Nottingham This excellent and accessible book challenges the notion that further education is overwhelmingly an instrument for material advancement and provides a vivid demonstration of the transformative potential inherent in classrooms. Stephen Brookfield, Antioch University An important book for our current times, revealing how colleges and social justice education deliver lifelong learning experiences, changing lives and communities along the way. Trace Ollis, Deakin University
Transformative Teaching and Learning in Further Education offers a timely exploration of the powerful impact that further and adult education providers can have on the lives of disadvantaged learners and their local communities. Educational Review
Author Information
Rob Smith is Professor of Education at Birmingham City University based in the Centre for the Study of Practice and Culture in Education (CSPACE). Vicky Duckworth is Professor in Secondary and Further Education at Edge Hill University and lead for the Social Justice and Equity Network.
