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Direct linkCairns, Abbie – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
This paper explores the enterprises artist-teachers in adult community learning (ACL) engage with and how these form their identity. This is significant to consider as artist-teachers in ACL are overlooked in the published literature. ACL is comprised of community-based learning delivered by local authorities and general further education…
Descriptors: Artists, Adult Education, Art Teachers, Professional Identity
Dalby, Diane; Noyes, Andrew – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
Since policy changes in 2014 about who studies mathematics post-16 in England, the mathematics teaching workforce in further education (FE) colleges has grown and diversified. The question of how best to develop the professional practice of this changing workforce is, however, unresolved. Teachers in a recent national study report the benefits of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Communities of Practice, Faculty Development
John Trent; Xiaoyi Liu – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
This article reports the results of a qualitative study whose purpose was to explore the teacher identity construction experiences of one group of vocational education English language teachers in China. The study uses narrative methods of inquiry to examine how English language teachers construct their professional identities within a…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Teachers, Professional Identity, Vocational Education
Lloyd, Catherine; Jones, Samantha – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
This article comes out of our shared experiences of undertaking post graduate research whilst working in the further education (FE) sector. In 2014, we established a research network within our college, with the initial aim of providing opportunities for those undertaking research to meet and discuss their work. We provide insight into our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational Research, Communities of Practice
Wright, Victoria; Loughlin, Theresa; Hall, Val – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
This paper reports on Phase Two of a small-scale qualitative research project. Phase One (2015-2016) focused on pre-service student teachers' perceptions of observation and feedback in relation to their developing identity as teachers. In Phase Two, two previous participants reflected on the research findings as qualified and beginning teachers.…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Qualitative Research, Professional Identity, Communities of Practice
Tymms, Mark – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2018
The aim of this study has been to explore and understand the implementation of PDP as an educational innovation in a single institutional context. Adopting a Sartrean ontology in which the subjective individual takes precedence over the systems within which that same individual exists, an interview process sought to understand the attitudes of…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Innovation, Professional Identity, Psychological Patterns
Melles, Gavin – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2011
During the late 1980s and early 1990s further and higher education in the UK and Australia underwent restructuring, bringing institutional mergers and the transformation of institutes of technology and colleges of education into "new" universities. Vocational fields, including the creative arts and industries of design and film, came…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Change, College Faculty
Leach, Tony – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2012
The aim of this article is to exemplify the value of using a phenomenological approach when investigating graduates' lived experiences of vocational learning. For this study, qualitative data was obtained during a series of email interviews with 35 participants. As a group they are highly aspirational and, during their graduate studies, were…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Experiments, Student Experience, Phenomenology
