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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Defining "Knowledge" in Vocational Education Qualifications in England: An Analysis of Key Stakeholders and Their Constructions of Knowledge, Purposes and Content
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Bathmaker, Ann-Marie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2013
What is meant by "knowledge" in vocational education qualifications and who decides? These are significant questions in a context where "skill" is the prevailing discourse. This paper reports on a research project, undertaken in 2010-2011, which investigated the role of national stakeholders in defining knowledge in vocational…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Qualifications, Stakeholders
From Trainee to FE Lecturer: Trials and Tribulations
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Avis, James; Bathmaker, Ann-Marie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2006
The article draws on the findings of a longitudinal study of an opportunistic sample of full-time further education trainee teachers attending an English new university. The study commenced in 2002 seeking to examine the processes through which trainee teachers entered the profession. Initially the research explored the routes followed and…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adult Educators, Student Experience, Student Placement
The Politics of Care: Emotional Labour and Trainee Further Education Lecturers
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Avis, James; Bathmaker, Ann-Marie – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2004
Further education has become pivotal to English educational policy with the sector being central to strategies that seek to raise educational standards and widen participation. This article derives from a study of trainee further education (FE) teachers on a full-time, postgraduate certificate course in the Midlands. It seeks to examine trainee…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Trainees, Educational Policy, Altruism