PCET

Learning and teaching in the post compulsory sector

Jonathan Tummons, Jonathan Tummons, Author

• Publisher: Learning Matters
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781526460226, 9781526460219
• eBook ISBN: 9781526481832
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Adult Education

This text is an introduction to learning and teaching in the post compulsory sector. Those training to teach in the sector need to understand learning and learners in PCET.  

This text goes further than other texts in its exploration of the sector. It encourages readers to critically evaluate the context of PCET in the UK and opens up their learning through introducing some global profiles.

The text explores learners in the sector, the diversity of the sector, the challenges and some topical contemporary themes. It covers a breadth of content and can thus be used as a general course text for all PGCE (PCET) courses as well as other education programmes. Through pedagogical features including critical questions, teacher and learner voices, links to practice and more, the text provides a resource for all those learning about PCET.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the editor and contributors
• About this book
• 1 What does the further and adult education sector do and why does it matter?
• 2 ‘Keep at a rolling boil’: policy change in the PCET sector
• 3 Quality assurance in post-compulsory education and training
• 4 Social justice and education
• 5 Diversity in the PCET sector
• 6 Literacy and numeracy in the post-compulsory sector
• 7 Parental involvement, student motivation and attainment in FE
• 8 Motivating students: why would they want to learn?
• 9 How should we teach in FE?
• 10 It’s all in the mind … or is it? Can an understanding of psychological approaches to learning enhance teaching?
• 11 Talk! Talk! Dialogue in the classroom: a social learning perspective
• 12 Assessment
• 13 Living and learning
• 14 Work and learning
• 15 Knowledge, skills and competence in vocational learning
• 16 Making sense of lifelong learning
• 17 Offender learning and prison education
• 18 Participation and inclusivity in adult learning: international perspectives
• 19 Post-compulsory education and training in Aotearoa New Zealand
• 20 Country profile: Finland
• 21 Mental health and well-being in the post-compulsory sector
• 22 College-based higher education
• 23 Information and communication technology in the post-compulsory sector
• 24 Apprenticeships
• 25 Professional development in further and adult education
• 26 The cost of everything and the value of nothing: what’s next for the FE sector?
• Index