Understanding the Further Education Sector - History, Challenges, and Achievements

Focusing on a less well-known area of education, the Further Education (FE) sector, this book provides education studies students a chance to provoke reflection, analysis and understanding, as well as personal and professional development in the area.

List of contents

1. Introducing the sector
2. Further education colleges
3. Managing and working in further education
4. Work-based learning (WBL)
5. Adult and community learning (ACL)
6. Widening participation (WP) and access to higher education
7. Higher education in further education (HE in FE)
8. Education for social justice, equality, and diversity
9. Skills for life (SfL)
10. COVID-19
11. 14-19 education
12. Sustainability
13. Specialist colleges
14. Offender learning
15. Making connections - The future of further education

About the author

Jim Crawley is a Visiting Teaching and Learning Fellow at Bath Spa University. He has worked in Further Education since 1974, including projects with unemployed young people to co-ordinating a national research network. He has published widely on Teaching, Professionalism, and Teacher Education all in FE and Advanced Research techniques for the wider education sector.

Summary

Focusing on a less well-known area of education, the Further Education (FE) sector, this book provides education studies students a chance to provoke reflection, analysis and understanding, as well as personal and professional development in the area.

Product details

• Authors: Jim Crawley, Crawley Jim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032742649
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274264-9
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: The Routledge Education Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Adult education, continuous learning, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher