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  • YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE LABOUR MARKET
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    YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE LABOUR MARKET
    ANDY FURLONG / JOHN GOODWIN / HENRIETTA O'CONNOR / SARAH HADFIELD / STUART HALL / KEVIN LOWDEN / RÉKA PLUG
    Levels of suffering among young people have always been much higher than governments suggest. Indeed, policies aimed at young workers have often been framed in ways that help secure conformity to a new employment landscape in which traditional securities have been progressively removed. Increasingly punitive welfare regimes have resulted in new hardships, especially among young...

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  • THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING
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    THE ROLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING
    FURLONG, JOHN (PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF WALES, SWANSEA)
    This text explores the issue of what role, if any, higher education should play in intial teacher training. The authors argue for the continued involvement of higher education in teacher training and cover such areas as the 1994 Education Act, the role of universities and the schools consortia. ...

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  • EDUCATION - AN ANATOMY OF THE DISCIPLINE
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    EDUCATION - AN ANATOMY OF THE DISCIPLINE
    JOHN FURLONG
    Education – An Anatomy of the Discipline focuses on the development of the discipline of education, how it is understood and practised in contemporary universities, and the potential threats to its future. As the author, John Furlong argues, disciplines are not only intellectually coherent fields of study; they also have a political life, they are argued for, supported, challen...

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  • MENTORING STUDENT TEACHERS
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    MENTORING STUDENT TEACHERS
    JOHN FURLONG / TRISHA MAYNARD
    In the UK and elsewhere, the training of teachers is increasingly seen as a matter of partnership between schools and institutions of higher education. There is thus an urgent need within the profession to define more carefully what the role of teachers acting as mentors should be. Clearly some aspects of professional knowledge can only be acquired from practical experience in ...

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  • DISCIPLINES OF EDUCATION
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    DISCIPLINES OF EDUCATION
    JOHN FURLONG
    Are the disciplines of education ghosts of a productive past or creative and useful forms of inquiry? Are they in a demographic and organisational crisis today? The contribution of the ‘foundation disciplines’ of sociology, psychology, philosophy, history and economics to the study of education has always been contested in the UK and in much of the English-speaking world. But s...

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  • ASSESSING QUALITY IN APPLIED AND PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH IN EDUCATION.
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    ASSESSING QUALITY IN APPLIED AND PRACTICE-BASED RESEARCH IN EDUCATION.
    JOHN FURLONG
    One of the most persistent features of the research environment in the UK over the last decades has been the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE); now more and more countries are following suit by developing their own systems for research quality assessment. However, in the field of education, one of the difficulties with this policy has been that a ...

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  • ADULT LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
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    ADULT LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
    NEIL SELWYN / STEPHEN GORARD / JOHN FURLONG
    This engaging book sheds light on the ways in which adults in the twenty-first century interact with technology in different learning environments. Based on one of the first large-scale academic research projects in this area, the authors present their findings and offer practical recommendations for the use of new technology in a learning society. They invite debate on: why IC...

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  • SCREENPLAY
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    SCREENPLAY
    KERI FACER / JOHN FURLONG / RUTH FURLONG / ROSAMUND SUTHERLAND
    What are young people really doing on computers at home?Computers feature heavily in the lives of today's young people, and this book sets out to question commonplace assumptions about the use of technology by children at home. Bringing together research from the perspective of psychology, sociology, education and media studies, the authors ask whether we are really witnessing ...

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  • EDUCATION, REFORM AND THE STATE
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    EDUCATION, REFORM AND THE STATE
    JOHN FURLONG
    The last quarter of the twentieth century was a very important period in history of education. Beginning with the so-called 'Great Debate', the period witnessed intense public and political interest in educational issues, culminating in an almost unprecedented amount of education-related legislation, the most symbolic of which was the Education Reform Act of 1988. Some scholar...

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