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Direct linkTummons, Jonathan – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2023
Drawing on interim findings from an ethnography of a cycle mechanics' workshop, this article demonstrates how the work of the mechanics rests on not only specific and contextualised craft expertise but also on distributed networks of both people and things, within which highly specialist instances of expertise or competence manifest alongside more…
Descriptors: Mechanics (Process), Mechanical Skills, Cultural Influences, Physical Activities
Jonathan Tummons – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
This paper provides an account of the everyday workplace learning of cycle technicians. Derived from an ethnography of working cultures and practices at a bike shop in the North of England, this paper rests on a critical reading of Communities of Practice theory in order to explore the complex and heterogeneous learning of cycle technicians.…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional Personnel, Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Transportation
Darlington, Ellie; Bowyer, Jessica – Teaching Mathematics and Its Applications, 2017
An ongoing reform programme of the post-16 Advanced "A"-level qualifications in England and Wales means that pre-university mathematics content and assessment will change from 2017. Undergraduate engineering is a subject that relies heavily on mathematics, and applicants to engineering degree programmes in the UK are required to have…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Education
Walker, Martyn – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2014
The mechanics' institute movement of the British Isles has been underrated by some historians, who have argued that many of the institutes were attended by the middle and upper classes. In any case, they state that by the 1850s, they were declining in both popularity and usefulness. This paper questions these assumptions, concentrating on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Adult Education, Mechanics (Process)
Walker, Martyn – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2012
Further education colleges in England and Wales have offered government-recognised courses and qualifications which receive public funding and have included technical and vocational courses since their foundation in the early twentieth century. Yet developments in such curricula and qualifications are not new and they can be traced back to the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Educational History, Vocational Education
Walker, Martyn – Educational Studies, 2013
Historians and educationalists have often assumed that working-class adult education emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century with the introduction of state-funded technical colleges. This was not the case. In 1823, the Glasgow Mechanics' Institute was opened and within a few years similar institutions were being established across the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Adult Education, Program Effectiveness
