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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"post-16"”.
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Citizenship education, post-16 students and pedagogy : a case study
… of citizenship education and pedagogy within the post-16 sector of a non- denominational voluntary grammar school in Northern Ireland used individual and group interviews to investigate the views of teachers and students in relation to the content, design and implementation of prospective …
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Interpreting the skills strategy: discourse in post-16 learning and workforce development
Post-16 educational discourse reflects government policy that, as a conceptual framework, it is shaping a new model of learning, skills initiatives and workforce development. This qualitative research examines the debate concerning the Skills Strategy (DfES 2003) and impact of 21st century skills …
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Transitional Difficulties in Post-16 Education: Moving from GCSE to A Level studies
… The sample included 147 participants aged 16-18 years. This was a purposeful sampling method including approximately 61% of the target population. 80 participants completed a questionnaire generating quantitative data, 40 participants completed a further questionnaire generating qualitative …
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Social Exclusion and Discourses of Literacy and Physical Activity (post-16) in Scotland
In European, UK and Scottish policy social exclusion has been the main discourse of poverty and disadvantage for at least the last sixteen years. However social exclusion is a contested term and there is limited consensus about its nature and definition. Adult physical activity and adult literacy …
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How do staff in a post-16 college co-construct Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) needs in their setting? A Discourse Analysis.
… which the SEND Code of Practice now relates to: 16-25 years. The aim of this research was to explore how college staff co-constructed SEMH needs in their setting, to offer a valuable insight as to how EPs can best support similar settings in the future. Existing literature highlighted an absence …
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From ability to (dis)ability: a bourdieudian analysis and case study of the experiences of young adults in utilising post-16 educational provision in Northern Ireland
Young (dis)abled people are significantly under-represented throughout further and higher education settings. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s social theory of habitus, capital and field, this study explores the practices of domination and oppression which have prevented young (dis)abled people from …
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Mentoring Student Teachers' Professional Thinking and Classroom Practice on an 11-18 Distance Learning PGCE: A Case Study of Post-16 Teaching and Challenge as a Mentor Strategy
… PGCE in England and Wales. A case study of post-16 teaching was conducted on a sample of English students and mentors over a six month period, during which challenge was problematised as a mentor strategy. five research instruments were developed and used iteratively to generate qualitative …
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Girls and A level physics : identity and choices
… girls’ choices to study or not to study physics post-16. This question is important because only 20% of the overall 16-18 physics cohort in England and Wales is female. A theoretical framework for physics identity is proposed using socio-cultural theories. An extensive review of the current …
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An investigation of curriculum arrangements conducive to fostering creativity in post-compulsory education and training institutions
… conducive to fostering creativity in post-16 (further) education institutions and classrooms, to analyse factors promoting or impeding creativity, curriculum content and processes, and also to offer/develop models of good practice for encouraging creativity in a further education …
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Customer satisfaction within education : the application of an integrated curriculum design method
The post-16 stage of education is critical in securing and developing people entering engineering professions and related occupations. Engineering employers and employees alike have however highlighted problems regarding poorly designed curricula failing to prepare employees for industrial and …
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The Successes and Limitations of Retraining Non-specialist Teachers to Teach Mathematics
… GCSE courses, and the expectation that most post-16 students will engage with some mathematics (studying for A and AS levels, a Core Maths qualification or re-taking GCSE) many more teachers of mathematics will be needed. The questions posed, explore whether retraining could provide an …
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Negotiating learner identity in an educational partnership: a qualitative study of pupils learning collaboratively in a school and FEC in Northern Ireland
… is to provide insight into the experience of post-16 school students in three schools as they navigate a school-FEC collaboration through the lens of learner identity negotiations. The institutional context of this study will be examined by looking at how the staff’s management of the …
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Making A Difference : Ways Of Teaching And Learning In General National Qualifications
… explicit in any form of the specifications it is postulated that it is the mediating influence of teachers which will determine the extent to which GNVQs are student-centred in learning and assessment, and how successful any course is in terms of levels of achievement by students. By following …
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The Paradox of the Raising Participation Age: the experiences of ‘disengaged’ youth on an employability course in a further education college
… in 2013 claims that youth participating in post-16 education and training are able to attain higher qualifications and skilled employment. Adopting a case study approach within a large further education (FE) college, qualitative research was conducted over two academic years (2013–2015) with …
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Policy and pedagogy in the further education sector: an emerging professional identity
… practice as an educator in higher education and post-16 ‘teacher’ education, as is evident in Part One of the thesis. It is also generated by the concerns and enquiry of other educators and theorists at a local and global level. The context and dominant subject of all three parts of this thesis …
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'Working it out': the educational careers and aspirations of students on an AVCE travel and tourism course at a college of FHE
… and labour markets of young people aged 16-19 following a full-time Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education (A VCE) vocational education course in Travel and Tourism at a College of FHE in the West Midlands. In particular, the study sought to evaluate the evidence for the persistence …
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The effectiveness of the discretionary financial award, the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), in a tertiary college in the South West of England
… to which a financial incentive can improve post-16 recruitment, retention and results on advanced level (academic and vocational) courses. Theme generating student and staff perceptions were sought on the impact of the EMA. College data were analysed to allow for a comparison of an EMA and …
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The Role of Deliberate Practice in Developing Adolescent Golfing Excellence
… golf development occurred around the age of 16 when exposure with golf specific deliberate practice became more evident once participants had gained selection for county and English Golf Union representative golf teams. The third study used interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore …
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The rôle of metaphor in the teaching of computing; towards a taxonomy of pedagogic content knowledge
… and successful computer teachers working at post-16 level (grades 12-13) in 20 south-of-England schools and colleges.<br/><br/>It is proposed that metaphor usage can be divided into many distinct forms. The most easily recognised metaphor is the narrative theme where an object, function or …
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