An instant FAVE for those teaching in further, adult and vocational education ... It can be used as a powerful reference book and is full of current thinking, research, policy and practice ... [A] real insight into the world of further education.” —inTuition (of the previous edition)
“Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education offers critical insight into the practice of value led teaching in these sectors. It provides a very readable and comprehensive overview of the challenges and dilemmas practitioners encounter working in varied and diverse contexts with adult learners. It skillfully presents the contemporary political context of FAVE and offers strategies to support meaningful and successful learning outcomes in this challenging environment. As the title suggests practice embedded in critically reflective processes is explored carefully and in depth. This text is essential reading for both new and experienced adult learning practitioners.” —Ann Swinney, Senior Lecturer, School of Education and Social Work, University of Dundee, UK
“This book makes two important contributions to the FAVE sector. First, it shows how values of social justice and personal empowerment impact learning and success. Second, it shows how professionalization of the field depends on clear vision, critical refection on practice, and passion to create equitable pedagogical and curricular changes.” —Rosalind Latiner Raby, Senior Lecturer, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, California State University, Northridge, USA
“Mandatory reading for anyone who wishes to understand the FAVE sector or improve on their teaching practice. It highlights the importance of the sector and its often undervalued contribution to an ever changing society. The authors have produced a book that reminds us of the crucial role FAVE plays in addressing social justice and the underpinning importance it plays in everything that teachers do in learning and teaching.
It offers a comprehensive guide into the daily issues faced by those working in the sector and offers excellent advice for those new to FAVE as well as for those who have already established their career. The authors have produced a book that provides insight into the importance of being a reflective practitioner as well as offering advice to help achieve it. These authors have “walked the walk” in education and as a result the ideas contained within are contextualised, ensuring a book that is engaging and accessible to everyone.” —Colin Ross, Curriculum Manager, Education & Social Science, Ayrshire College, UK
“Whether a new or existing FAVE teacher, this book will provoke you and challenge you to critically reflect on your understanding of what constitutes effective learning and teaching. It will also prompt you to critically reflect on and assess the impact your practice and interactions with your students. Its case studies, reflective activities, key readings and web content, are designed to help you engage critically with research, informing and refining the impact of your practice. A great resource that will encourage you to question, challenge and extend your thinking, individually and with colleagues.” —Sandra-Jane Grier, Lead Curriculum and Teaching, College Development Network, UK
“This is a treasure trove of useful insights, well-founded recommendations, and wise prompts for reflection exercises. A much needed handbook that will without a doubt contribute to increasing the quality of Adult Learning provision. The European Basic Skills Network, EBSN, is looking forward to including it as one of the resources in our future teacher courses.” —Graciela Sbertoli, Secretary General, The European Basic Skills Network, Norway
“Brookfield (1995) famously said that, “we teach to change the world” (p.1). In line with this aim, Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education encourages and equips post-compulsory education teachers to develop their practice through reflection so they, in turban, can help students become better versions of themselves. The book also clearly and thoroughly explains the learning theories and models, and educational policies that influence day-to-day pedagogy, making it essential reading for new and more experienced teachers alike.” —Suzanne Lynch, Lecturer in Hospitality and Tourism Department, City of Glasgow College, Scotland
“With the publication of the Centenary Committee Report on Adult Education, the launching of the new Professional Standards in Scotland and the Independent Commission on the College of the future expected to report in June 2020, there can be no better time for a the new edition of Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education. Whether a new practitioner to the profession or a more experienced one, meeting the challenge of an ever changing sector, this book is a 'must have'.” —David McShane, Head of Faculty, Faculty of Supported Learning, New College Lanarkshire, Scotland
Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education book is fantastic. It combines bang-up-to-date scholarship and research with a wealth of practitioner experience, in a text that is entirely suitable to both trainees and newer teachers in the ever-diverse post-compulsory sector. Eschewing the bullet points and over-simplified approach that blight too many other books, this volume instead positions the readers as being intelligent, critically aware and thoughtful - and does not let them down. It's thorough, thoughtful, grounded in rich practice and critical use of theory, and should be compulsory reading for all in the sector.
Full of insight, advice and scholarship of the highest level, this extended version of the Yvonne Hillier's classic is a must-buy purchase for any teacher, including those in further adult and vocational education. It is comprehensive, written by expert practitioners, full of opportunities for reflection and action, and truly focussed on learning for social justice.
Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education is a welcome alternative and antidote to books that aim to provide a technical manual on how to teach in further education settings. This accessible and illuminating book eschews abstraction in favour of a deeply contextualised approach. Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education guides the reader through the principles and values underpinning reflective practice in a refreshingly honest, personal and straightforward way. This is a compendious and essential book for teacher educators and students alike.
I found Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education highly readable and practical, focusing as it does on the key issues that teachers and practitioners in further, adult and vocational education and vocational education elsewhere face in their daily work. The book provides wise advice and much food for thought. As a result it will be an invaluable asset for those wishing to better understand how they might improve their teaching practice.
Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education is a very important publication, the most comprehensive book on teaching in a sector unfamiliar to most politicians and much of the media. It is informative, rigorously research-based, measured and clearly written. It demonstrates convincingly how critical the role of teachers is, for both a healthy society and a productive economy, and also how essentially complex the wisdom and expertise of teachers needs to be. I expect it to become the standard text for post-compulsory sector teacher education.
I thought I knew a thing or two about further education, but Reflective Teaching in Further, Adult and Vocational Education has opened my eyes and my mind. It is at one and the same time comprehensive and personal; authoritative and sceptical; engaging and challenging. This is not a book to read at one sitting but to consult time and again for thoughtful overviews of all the main issues in further, adult and vocational education.
