ERIC Number: EJ1125620
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
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Challenging Assumptions about Values, Interests and Power in Further and Higher Education Partnerships
Elliott, Geoffrey
Journal of Further and Higher Education, v41 n2 p143-154 2017
This article raises questions that challenge assumptions about values, interests and power in further and higher education partnerships. These topics were explored in a series of semi-structured interviews with a sample of principals and senior higher education partnership managers of colleges spread across a single region in England. The data suggest that common assumptions evident in the literature and professional discourse about the hegemony of higher education institutions in partnerships with further education and sixth form colleges may be misplaced. Questions are also raised about an exclusive focus upon shared values in educational partnerships, and it is suggested that greater clarity about the focus of educational partnerships can explain how successful partnerships can negotiate which values and interests are shared and which are not -- an approach that can be a useful modus operandi in the increasingly competitive educational markets in which universities and colleges operate.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Partnerships in Education, Adult Education, Semi Structured Interviews, Principals, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Adult Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (England)
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