Post-16 Educator
Post-16 Educator is a bi-monthly magazine produced by and for activists in all sectors of post compulsory education.
Features
The Guardian of Harlow College? A special feature highlighting events at Harlow College, including a spotlight on The Guardian’s coverage of events and its profile of the principal. Read about it here.
Plebs: the lost legacy of independent working-class education Colin Waugh's recently published account of the Plebs League - the founding movement inspired by the notion that the working classes should produce its own thinkers and organisers. Download a flyer here, or contact us for more information, or download the pamphlet here (950KB pdf file).
Personalized Learning and Vocational Education and Training Personalised learning is a teaching and learning approach which is centred on the needs, aptitudes, and interests of individual learners. In this article, Ian Duckett explores the nature and philosophical underpinnings of personalised learning, its evolution as a mainstream learning approach, and its implementation in a number of different countries, mainly the United Kingdom, Australia, United States of America, and New Zealand. Download here (216KB pdf file).
Latest Post-16 Educator
Issue 65 September-December 2011
News Update - the latest facts and figures, news and events from the post-16 sector.
Oakum picking in the twenty-first century Robin Simmons discusses some of the findings from research exploring the lives of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). .
The digital divides Philip Sainty examines a variety of digital media as an aid to ‘problem posing’ in education.
Review: Making Socialists. Mary Bridges Adams and the fight for knowledge and power 1855-1939 (2010) Colin Waugh reviews Jane Martin’s book about socialist and education activist Mary Bridges Adams.
Assessment report: AEB ‘O’ Level English Language (Mature Students) (1970) A reprint of an article by Vincent Whitcombe, originally published in 1970 in the journal Liberal Education.
Review: Capital Realism, is there no alternative? (2010) Patrick Ainley reviews Mark Fisher’s analysis of FE, as a site for students captured between the disciplinary institution of compulsory education, and their soon-to-be new status as consumers of services.
Paulo Freire’s thought: towards a critical perspective Colin Waugh suggests some discussion questions which could be used by a Freire reading group to investigate a key passage in Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
NEWS . . .
In each edition PSE provides a synopsis of over 100 reported events across a range of media and research. Did you know:
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•Browne Review - coverage of the latest commentary (PSE 60)
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•UCU members at UCL suspend action after management proclaim compulsory redundancies unlikely (PSE 58)
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•Pay: a UCU special conference on HE pay agrees to submit a claim for either 8 per cent or RPI plus 5 per cent. The employers (UCEA) maintain a 'zero percentage' awaits (PSE 49)
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•Two Middlesex professors and one senior lecturer suspended pending investigation of their involvement is support for protests aimed at preventing the closure of philosophy courses (PSE 58)
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•Report on the THE analysis of HE finances (PSE 63)
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•James Noble-Rogers, UCET head, is ‘extremely apprehensive’ following rumours that Michael Gove plans to remove teacher training from HE (PSE 61)
About PSE
The Editorial Board
The editorial board consists of grass roots activists from UCU and the NUT working together to organise readers and contributors into a national network that is democratic, that develops our practice and our thinking, and that equips us to take action over issues rather than always having to react to changes imposed from above.
The editors welcome articles of any length by and/or for practitioners and intending practitioners in any area of post-16 education, especially by women, plus letters, news items, photographs, materials and illustrations. Articles can be published anonymously if required.
PSE
There are several real debates going on in post-16 education at the moment. Practitioners need to engage in these debates before decisions get made. Post-16 Educator covers all the major issues in the post compulsory sector.
Each bi-monthly issue includes news and commentary from those working within post compulsory education, plus regular contributions from other interested activists. Comprehensive news coverage picks up on reports in national and local media, together with academic and government papers relevant to the sector. Recent features have included the Israeli academics boycott, the 2006 FE White Paper, prisoner education, teaching practice and the recently formed University and College Union (UCU).
Subscriptions
Any individual or organisation can subscribe. Annual rates (6 copies) range from £3.00 (unwaged) to an institutional rate of £25 each year. For further details please follow this link to download a pdf document (40kb) detailing subscription rates and standing order mandates.
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