This book looks at the issues facing teachers and trainers currently working in the field of post compulsory education including questions of vocationalism, managerialism, professionalism, accountability, and educational research. Although aimed in part at raising awareness of such issues and the contrasting views which might be held it is intended that readers will use the book to develop an active engagement with these issues. This may be achieved through reflection and evaluation within their own professional context but also through embarking on their own research projects.The book is split into three sections. The first section deals with issues raised by locating post compulsory education within a wider social, political and economic context. The second section looks at issues raised by considering post compulsory education in its organizational context. The third section looks at methodological issues connected with conducting research in post compulsory settings.The format for each section includes overviews with self-assessment exercises, followed by different authors pursuing particular lines of inquiry, finishing with suggestions for ways in which readers might engage in debate and research.

Working in Post-Compulsory Education

Business & Money

Lea, John

Armitage,Andy

Dunnill,Richard

Hayes,Dennis

Lomas, Laurie

Markless, Sharon

Education & Reference

Open University Press

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

This book is an essential guide if you are working in higher education and seeking professional recognition for your role in teaching and supporting learning, and particularly if you are seeking a fellowship with the Uk Higher Education Academy (Hea).

Enhancing Learning And Teaching In Higher Education: Engaging With The Dimensions Of Practice

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Tourism and Development in the Third World (Routledge Introductions to Development)

What is the thruth behind the paradise beaches in travel brocures? What can a developing country do when one exotic holiday seems much like another, when political instability or environmental disaster can deter tourist for years, when the tourism industry slips into foreign control?Tourism and Development in the Third World assess the diverse social, economic, and environmental factors which impact on the Third World. Illustrating the analysis with cases which range across tourism in game parks, sex tours and the after-efects of political turmoil, the book explores ways of managing tourism as a resource and evaluates its long-term contribution towards national development.

Reference

Routledge

Political Correctness and Higher Education

<ul>
<li>How many times have you heard the phrase: `it’s all political correctness gone mad!’</li> <li>Do you ever wonder whether colleges and universities are really awash with trivial concerns about the use of language or whether they are actually trying to address serious concerns about discrimination and harassment?</li> <li>Have you ever wanted to get to the bottom of what all the fuss is about?</li> </ul> This book is the first major study of political correctness in post compulsory education to be published in the UK. For readers in the UK unfamiliar with the nature of the controversies in US college campuses this book offers a comprehensive assessment of the key themes, including who and what was behind key campaigns. For readers in the US unfamiliar with how this cultural export has faired in the UK this book looks at the significant similarities and differences in the ways that the phrase has been used in both societies. Apart from addressing the roots of political correctness the book seeks to show how the phrase has helped to complicate the traditional boundaries between those on the political Left and those on the political Right. The book also demonstrates in clear terms how the phrase is integral to understanding key themes in cultural theory, such as postmodernism and identity politics. This book is intended to be of interest to a number of readers: <ul>
<li>Teachers working in colleges and universities;</li> <li>Teacher educators and student teachers working on programmes of initial teacher education;</li> <li>Students studying undergraduate programmes in comparative politics and/or sociology and cultural studies</li> </ul> Finally, the book will seek to capture the reflections of prominent academics and educationalists bon both sides of the Atlantic, who have worked in environments where the phrase has impinged on aspects of their work over the last twenty five years. If you think that `political correctness’ simply amounts to what jokes you are allowed to tell in a classroom, hopefully this book will challenge you to think again.

Political Correctness and Higher Education: British and American Perspectives

How many times have you heard the phrase: `it’s all political correctness gone mad!’  Do you ever wonder whether colleges and universities are really awash with trivial concerns about the use of language or whether they are actually trying to address serious concerns about discrimination and harassment?   Have you ever wanted to get to the bottom of what all the fuss is about?   This book is the first major study of political correctness in post compulsory education to be published in the UK. For readers in the UK unfamiliar with the nature of the controversies in US college campuses this book offers a comprehensive assessment of the key themes, including who and what was behind key campaigns. For readers in the US unfamiliar with how this cultural export has faired in the UK this book looks at the significant similarities and differences in the ways that the phrase has been used in both societies.  Apart from addressing the roots of political correctness the book seeks to show how the phrase has helped to complicate the traditional boundaries between those on the political Left and those on the political Right. The book also demonstrates in clear terms how the phrase is integral to understanding key themes in cultural theory, such as postmodernism and identity politics.  This book is intended to be of interest to a number of readers:   Teachers working in colleges and universities;   Teacher educators and student teachers working on programmes of initial teacher education;   Students studying undergraduate programmes in comparative politics and/or sociology and cultural studies   Finally, the book will seek to capture the reflections of prominent academics and educationalists bon both sides of the Atlantic, who have worked in environments where the phrase has impinged on aspects of their work over the last twenty five years.  If you think that `political correctness’ simply amounts to what jokes you are allowed to tell in a classroom, hopefully this book will challenge you to think again.

The authors look at the connection between democracy and efficiency as they investigate the meaning of law and order. The authors argue that only through a democratically accountable police service can we hope to build up relationships within the inner city.

What is to Be Done About Law and Order?: Crisis in the Nineties

Social Sciences

Pluto Press

Examining contemporary notions of crime and criminology, this book proposes a rigorous, new left realism about the issues raised. The authors look at the causes and consequences of crime, the rise of violence, and the impact of racism, the inner city, poverty and unemployment. This updated edition, revised and with two new chapers, reconsiders the issues of law and order, identifying crime as something often caused by society's deceptions and inequalities but always directed towards selfishness and individualism. Lea and Young put forward an agenda for reversing the increasingly confrontational nature of crime and policing in Britain, and thus preventing political energies, which could be harnessed for a transformation of society, being channelled into ensuring its inertia.

What is to be Done About Law and Order: Crisis in the Nineties

Young, Jock

Privatising Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control

Privatising Justice takes a broad historical view of the role of the private sector in the British state, from private policing and mercenaries in the eighteenth century to the modern rise of the private security industry in armed conflict, policing and the penal system.The development of the welfare state is seen as central to the decline of what the authors call 'old privatisation'. Its succession by neoliberalism has created the ground for the resurgence of the private sector. The growth of private military, policing and penal systems is located within the broader global changes brought about by neoliberalism and the dystopian future that it portends.The book is a powerful petition for the reversal of the increasing privatisation of the state and the neoliberalism that underlies it.

Fitzgibbon, Wendy

Economics

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Working in Post-Compulsory Education

Working in Post-Compulsory Education

Enhancing Learning And Teaching In Higher Education: Engaging With The Dimensions Of Practice

Tourism and Development in the Third World (Routledge Introductions to Development)

Political Correctness and Higher Education: British and American Perspectives

Political Correctness and Higher Education

What is to Be Done About Law and Order?: Crisis in the Nineties

What is to be Done About Law and Order: Crisis in the Nineties

Privatising Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control

Privatising Justice: The Security Industry, War and Crime Control