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Informationen zum Autor While a student at Portsmouth Technical College, David was tempted to follow his heart and become a writer. Instead, having been brought up in a service family, duty called and he joined the Royal Navy as a seaman officer.In 1971 he left the Senior Service to pursue his other dream - of becoming a professional civilian sailor. Hard years followed before he was sufficiently experienced and qualified to captain groups of young Londoners on adventurous sailing voyages in a traditional old Norwegian sailing rescue ship. In 1977 David was recruited to run Ocean Youth Club, Britain's largest sail training fleet. In 1985 he was head-hunted by the Drake Fellowship which he soon merged with Fairbridge to create Fairbridge-Drake. This became the UK's most effective motivational training charity for unemployed young people in inner cities.David eventually left London for West Cornwall, where, at the age when most people retire, his wife suggested opening a bookshop. They transformed a local tea-room into a much-loved café and second-hand bookshop where David started writing poetry again, publishing Any Cornish Beach in 2009.David relished the solitude imposed by the Covid lockdown and began to write his first novel, A Flower in Winter. Klappentext Through its unique theoretical framework - a cultural understanding of teaching and learning - this book develops a new way of understanding educational improvement, one which focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn. Based on detailed ethnographic research of seventeen learning sites in further education colleges, this book generates a unique insight into a wide variety of practices of teaching and learning. Illustrated by case studies, it is structured around three key questions: what do learning cultures in FE look like and how do they transform over time? how do learning cultures transform people? how can people (tutors, managers, policy makers, but also students) transform learning cultures for the better? Through a combination of theory and analysis, Improving Learning Cultures in Further Education makes a strong case for the importance of a cultural approach to the improvement of teaching and learning in further education, and provides practical guidance for researchers, policymakers and practitioners for implementing change for the better. Zusammenfassung Illustrated with case studies, this practical guide develops a new way of understanding educational improvement – one which focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: What are the Issues? 1. Introduction to the TLC Project and the Book 2. An Outline of the Theoretical Framework Part 2: What Does the Research Tell Us? What are Learning Cultures in FE and How do they Change? 3. Learning Cultures Across the Sector 4. Learning Cultures Across Sites How do Learning Cultures Transform People? 5. The Practices of Learning 6. The Learning of Practices How Can Learning Cultures be Improved? 7. Managing, Mediating and Mitigating Learning Cultures 8. Policy, Professionality and Transformation Part 3: What are the Overall Implications? Methodological Appendix ...
