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Learning at Work

by Professor Frank Coffield

This first report in the ESRC Learning Society series examines the key processes of learning, as embedded in particular workplaces, in organisational structures and in specific social practices. Why is learning suddenly so important? How can the quality of learning at work be improved? Instead of extolling the 'joys' of learning, the authors ...

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Necessity of Informal Learning

by Professor Frank Coffield

The ESRC's programme of research into The Learning Society did not set out to study informal learning, but it quickly became clear to project after project within the Programme that the importance of informal learning had been underestimated. This book focuses on this complex field.

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Differing Visions of a Learning Society: Research Findings Volume 1

Differing Visions of a Learning Society: Research Findings Volume 1 more books like this

by Professor Frank Coffield (Editor)

Lifelong learning has been an evidence-free zone for too long. It has been under-researched and under-theorized. This volume, the first of two, is the culmination of years of empirical work undertaken for the ESRC's Learning Society Programme, a major investment in lifelong learning research. It explores the ways lifelong learning can contribute ...

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Differing Visions of a Learning Society: Research Findings Volume 2

by Professor Frank Coffield (Editor)

This is the second of two volumes which examine differing visions of a learning society. This volume presents six further "overview" chapters, each one by a project team which presents its aims, methods, findings and policy implications. It explores such themes as the skills of British workers, the meaning of the learning society for adults with ...

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Speaking Truth to Power: Research and Policy on Lifelong Learning

by Professor Frank Coffield

In this collection of essays researchers discuss the implications of their findings for policy. They make recommendations for policy makers and those concerned to improve the quality of learning at work.

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Repositioning Higher Education

Repositioning Higher Education more books like this

by Professor Frank Coffield

'I recommend this book wholeheartedly. It will be thought-provoking to many, including tutors and students of educational policy...I would encourage anyone working in HE to read it since it does much to explain the situation in which we find ourselves' - Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. The writers in this book envisage a system of ...

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Running Ever Faster Down the Wrong Road: An Alternative Future for Education and Skills

Running Ever Faster Down the Wrong Road: An Alternative Future for Education and Skills more books like this

by Professor Frank Coffield

Since 1988 the education system in England has been subjected to wave upon wave of radical change, and a more intensive model of reform is now being applied to all the public services.Drawing on his own research and that of other specialists into the post-compulsory sector, Coffield concludes that, despite significant investments and some ...

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Vandalism & graffiti : the state of the art more books like this

by Frank Coffield

This publication looks at the reality behind vandalism, stripping away the myths, and discusses what can be done to reduce it.

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Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion: The Impact of Policy on Post-Compulsory Education

Improving Learning, Skills and Inclusion: The Impact of Policy on Post-Compulsory Education more books like this

by Professor Frank Coffield

How can opportunities for teaching and learning be improved to ensure that many more people participate, gain qualifications and obtain decent jobs? Will government policies enable us to achieve these goals? What new ideas do we need to ensure a more inclusive, equitable and efficient learning system? These are some of the main concerns which ...

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Growing Up at the Margins PB more books like this

by Professor Frank Coffield

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A Cycle of Deprivation?: A Case Study of Four Families more books like this

by Professor Frank Coffield

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Why's the beer always stronger up North? : studies of lifelong learning in Europe more books like this

by Frank Coffield, Economic and Social Research Council

This edited report on lifelong learning attacks the consensual rhetoric which has become dominant in the English-speaking world over the last 20 years. It presents different models of The Learning Society, and explores the limitations and advantages of comparative research.

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Can the UK become a learning society : the fourth annual education lecture.

by Frank Coffield, London. School of Education King's College

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Growing Up at the Margins CL more books like this

by Professor Frank Coffield

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Differing visions of the learning society : research findings. Vol. 2 more books like this

by Frank Coffield

This is the second of two volumes which examine differing visions of a learning society. This volume presents six further "overview" chapters, each one by a project team which presents its aims, methods, findings and policy implications. It explores such themes as the skills of British workers, the meaning of the learning society for adults with ...

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Sacred Cows in Education more books like this

by Frank Coffield (Editor), Richard Goodings (Editor)

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Differing Visions of a Learning Society: v.1: Research Findings

by Frank Coffield (Editor)

Lifelong learning has been an evidence-free zone for too long. It has been under-researched and under-theorized. This volume, the first of two, is the culmination of years of empirical work undertaken for the ESRC's Learning Society Programme, a major investment in lifelong learning research. It explores the ways lifelong learning can contribute ...

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