A Lecturer's Guide to Further Education [Hardcover]

This book offers a unique and provocative guide for all lecturers committed to providing the best education and training possible in the changing world of Further Education.

Dennis Hayes is the Head of the Centre for Professional Learning at Canterbury Christ Church University and is the one of the authors of the two best selling companions books to this, Teaching and Training in Post-Compulsory Education and Working in Post-Compulsory Education. He has worked in FE and FE teacher training for twenty years, and is a columnist for FE Focus in the TES. From May 2006 he will be joint President of the new Post-Compulsory lecturers' body, the University and College Union, formed from the merger of Natfhe and the AUT. Toby Marshall is Curriculum Manager for A Level Law, Psychology and Media Studies at Havering College of Further and Higher Education. He has extensive experience of using ICT as a teacher of Communications, Film and Media. Alec Turner has taught a broad range of subjects since he began to teach in FE in 1991. He is currently a lecturer in Health & Social Care and Cross-College Co-ordinator in Application of Number Key Skill at City and Islington College. Jon Bryan teaches sociology at Newcastle College and is the Head of the Further Education Committee of NATFHE. Neil Davenport teaches Government & Politics at Hammersmith and West London College. Since becoming an FE lecturer in 2002, he has taught social science subjects in a number of inner London colleges. Prior to lecturing he was a journalist working for the Manchester Evening News and still contributes regularly to a variety of political, consumer and lifestyle magazines. Kathryn Ecclestone is Reader in Educational Assessment at the University of Nottingham. She was the Associate Director for further and adult education in the Teaching and Learning Research Programme. Between 1993 and 1997, she ran a large university-led consortium of FE colleges offering teacher education and professional development courses for post-16 practitioners. Among her recent publications is the well-received and successful Learning Autonomy in Post-Compulsory Education (Routledge 2003). Claire Fox is the Director of the Institute of Ideas and among her many radio and TV credits she is best known as a regular on BBC Radio 4's The Moral Maze. She has written widely on educational issues and is currently completing a book on education. Patrick Hayes is the Strategic Planning Coordinator at TSL Education, the publishers of the Times Educational Supplement. He was a researcher and journalist who reported on many innovative programme developments for young people. Most relevantly he is currently a part-time student on a vocational course. Ian Nash is the Editor of the FE Focus section of the Times Educational Supplement. He has been closely involved with the formation of the Concord Group. Patrick Turner worked in Wandsworth as a Senior Drug Education Worker and a Co-ordinator of a young people's 'Virtual' drugs team and was involved in the training of many Connexions advisors. He now works in the Department of Career and Personal Development at Canterbury Christ Church University. Joanna Williams teaches English at Thanet College. She is also a free-lance journalist who has written for the TES and many other publications.