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Packed full of practical activities and case study examples, this guide to teaching and learning within the context of the changing FE environment addresses the diverse nature of the curriculum and of the student body for which it is designed.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278309 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 252 pages

Review

'A helpful and timely volume ... its principal virtue is that it reproduces concisely some of the best and ... most up-to-date information likely to be needed by anyone contemplating a job in FE, or having recently commenced one ... I warmly recommend it.' - Journal of Further and Higher Education

 

From the Publisher
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'A helpful and timely volume...its principal virtue is that it reproduces some of the best and...most up-to-date information likely to be needed by anyone contemplating a job in FE, or having recently commenced one...I warmly recommend it.'(Journal of Further and Higher Education, Praise for the first edition)

From the Back Cover

Teaching and Learning in Further Education

3rd Edition

This third edition presents the most up-to-date picture of teaching and learning in colleges in the UK. It has been fully revised in order to capture the considerable changes that have taken place since the second edition was published. These changes relate to all aspects of college activity. At the same time, the fundamental principles that help teachers develop the knowledge and skills of their students provide an important and much-needed platform of stability. This book introduces readers to those principles and to a wide range of strategies that can be used to support the learning of an increasingly diverse body of students.

Further education colleges provide education and training to more students than any other institutions in the post-compulsory sector in the UK. Drawing on a considerable research base, this book places FE teaching and learning in its historical, social, economic, and political context to help readers to better understand how practice in colleges has evolved.

The book explores:

• the changing context, structure and funding of the FE sector
• the nature and range of FE students and staff
• the range of curricula and qualifications
• teaching and learning theories and strategies
• the assessment and recording of achievement
• continued professional development
• support available to FE teachers

 

For this new edition, particular emphasis has been placed on the following topics:

 

• workplace, work-based and work-related learning
• e-learning and the use of new technologies
• the impact of 14-16 year olds in college

• the development of new full-time vocational programmes
• collaboration between FE and higher education
• marginal groups in college, including second language learners and asylum seekers
• developments in assessment and individualized learning

 

Full of practical activities and case study examples, Teaching and Learning in Further Education helps the reader to consider differing student needs and how these might best be served. It is essential reading for lecturers, tutors, managers and teaching assistants in further and higher education. Throughout, case study examples help you to consider differing student needs and how these might best be served. They also provide an opportunity to reflect upon how the changing policy context of FE impacts upon students, programmes and institutions. Practical activities are also included, which can be used as catalysts for questioning your attitude and approaches to work in FE.

Whether you are embarking on a career or already teaching, this book will help you review your approach and understanding of the process of teaching and learning in further education.

Prue Huddleston is Director of the Centre for Education and Industry at the

University of Warwick.

Lorna Unwin is Professor of Vocational Education at the Institute of Education, University of London.