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Orr, Kevin – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
This article examines what both in-service and pre-service trainee teachers learn from their early experience of teaching in further education (FE) colleges in England. Despite differences between in-service and pre-service trainees, that early experience is often characterised by isolation and lack of control over practice for both groups.…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Adult Education, Coping, Foreign Countries
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Orr, Kevin; Simmons, Robin – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: This paper problematises the experience of trainee teachers in further education (FE) colleges in England. It focuses on colleges as employers and developers of their own teaching staff, 90 per cent of whom are trained "in-service", while in paid employment. The paper aims to explore how a shift towards more expansive workplace…
Descriptors: Evidence, Employment Practices, Adult Education, Education Work Relationship