Improving Learning Cultures in Further Education / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780415427357 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 09/20/2007 Series: Improving Learning Pages: 222 Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d) Through its unique theoretical framework - a cultural understanding of teaching and learning – this book develops a new way of understanding educational improvement, one which focuses on the formation and transformation of the practices through which students learn. Based on detailed ethnographic research of seventeen learning sites in further education colleges, this book generates a unique insight into a wide variety of practices of teaching and learning. Illustrated by case studies, it is structured around three key questions: what do learning cultures in FE look like and how do they transform over time? how do learning cultures transform people? how can people (tutors, managers, policy makers, but also students) transform learning cultures for the better? Through a combination of theory and analysis, Improving Lea