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Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning across the United Kingdom: Policy, organisation and governance: 37
Author(s): Ann Hodgson (Editor), Ken Spours (Editor), Martyn Waring (Editor), Jim Gallacher (Contributor), Stuart Gardner (Contributor), Vernon Gayle (Contributor), Dennis Gunning (Contributor), David James (Contributor), Ewart Keep (Contributor), Janet Lowe CBE FRSE (Contributor), David Raffe (Contributor), Gareth Rees (Contributor)
Publisher: Institute of Education
Publication Date: 17 Jan. 2011
Language: English
Print length: 188 pages
ISBN-10: 0854739041
ISBN-13: 9780854739042
Book Description
This book brings together the perspectives of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from across England, Wales and Scotland to produce a rich, up-to-date and highly textured source of evidence about this under-researched sector. The contributors analyse how each country’s approach to national policy, organisation, governance and practice operates and show that by understanding this in depth, one can move beyond simplistic comparisons, policy borrowing and idealisations towards a more effective mode of government in the future. The book looks at the commonalities and differences between the UK’s national systems and compares this internationally, before it maps out and summarises each nation’s key system features. It gives expert opinion on the organisational arrangements and priorities in England, Scotland and Wales and shows how each operates in practice and what implications there are for the learners, educational professionals and wider stakeholders. The book concludes by imagining three possible scenarios for the future of education and training policy across the UK. This book will be of direct interest and relevance to national and international researchers and policy-makers in the broadly defined field of post-compulsory education and lifelong learning. It will also appeal to teachers, lecturers and postgraduate students on courses related to education and political science, and those who work in national and regional agencies in England, Scotland and Wales.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book, by leading writers in the field, makes a major contribution to analyses of policies concerned with post-compulsory education and lifelong learning in the UK. The book usefully draws the readers’ attention to the continuities, ruptures and contradictions in the education policies developed by the home nations. One of the key strengths of the book is its commitment to policy learning as opposed to policy borrowing, with another being its refusal to portray the education policy of any one of the home nations as inherently superior. — James Avis ― University of Huddersfield
About the Author
Professor Ann Hodgson is Faculty Director of Research, Consultancy and Knowledge Transfer and Co-Director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Professor Ken Spours is Head of the Department of Continuing and Professional Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Martyn Waring is a Visiting Research Associate at the Institute of Education, University of London.
Professor Jim Gallacher is Emeritus Professor of Lifelong Learning at the Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, Glasgow Caledonian University.
Dr Stuart Gardner is Head of Business Performance at the Young People’s Learning Agency.
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