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Beverley Morris; Jon Thedham – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
Resilience training for Further Education (FE) managers has become an increasingly familiar aspect of management development. This paper challenges the accepted orthodoxies underpinning resilience as a 'learnable' skill required to succeed as a manager. In particular, it addresses the concepts of toxic positivity, growth mindset (Dweck) and Grit…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Postsecondary Education, Neoliberalism, Cooperation
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Sally Welsh – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
This small-scale research project explores policy and staff perspectives which affect student parents in higher education at an English further education college. Drawing on Nancy Fraser's work on the welfare state and the social organisation of care work, the paper examines approaches to a marginalised student group. Qualitative data were…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Power Structure