Improving learning cultures in further education /
[Book]
David James and Gert Biesta ; with Helen Colley [and others].
New York :
Routledge,
2007.
xviii, 201 pages ;
23 cm.
Improving learning TLRP
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-196) and index.
What are the issues? -- Improving learning cultures in further education? / David James, Gert Biesta, Phil Hodkinson, Keith Postlethwaite and Denis Gleeson -- Learning cultures and a cultural theory of learning / Phil Hodkinson, Gert Biesta and David James -- What does the research tell us? -- Improving teaching and learning in FE : a policy history / Helen Colley, Madeleine Wahlberg and David James -- Learning cultures across sites / Phil Hodkinson, Gert Biesta, Keith Postlethwaite and Wendy Maull -- The learning of practices and the practices of learning / David James, Jennie Davies and Gert Biesta -- Changing the culture : interventions and mediations / David James, Madeleine Wahlberg and Gert Biesta -- Professionality in FE learning cultures / David James and Denis Gleeson -- What are the overall implications? -- Transforming learning cultures in further education / Gert Biesta, David James, Phil Hodkinson, Denis Gleeson and Keith Postlethwaite -- Methodological appendix / Keith Postlethwaite.
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Based upon findings of the 'Transforming Learning Cultures in Further Education' research project, this book argues that there is scope for improvement in further education. It develops a way of understanding educational improvement that focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn.