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The politics of care: emotional labour and trainee further education lecturers[1]

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In this paper, a study of trainee further education (FE) teachers on a full-time, postgraduate certificate course in the Midlands was carried out to examine trainee experiences of their placement college and of the pedagogic relations in which they are placed.
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Further education has become pivotal to English educational policy with the sector being central to strategies that seek to raise educational standards and widen participation. This article derives from a study of trainee further education (FE) teachers on a full-time, postgraduate certificate course in the Midlands. It seeks to examine trainee experiences of their placement college and of the pedagogic relations in which they are placed. In particular, the article analyses trainees' initial orientation towards learning and teaching in the sector, and sets this against college experiences. Heuristically, trainees' understandings of care are located within and mediated by the pedagogic context in which they labour. Conceptualisations of emotional labour, performativity, and the relations between learner and teacher are central to understanding these orientations to care.

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Educating the “Right” Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality (Chinese translation).: Apple, M.

Michael Apple
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the history of home schooling in America, focusing on the following: 1. Introduction: What No Child Left Behind has Given Us. 2. Neoconservatism: Teaching "Real Knowledge". Authoritarian Populism: Schooling as God Wanted It.
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Dual identities: the in‐service teacher trainee experience in the English further education sector

TL;DR: This article explored the dual identities of trainees on in-service English further education (FE) teacher training courses and argued that how their two roles interact may cause tensions in their development, shaping and reinforcing a conservative understanding of further education and the role of the FE teacher.
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Endless change in the learning and skills sector: the impact on teaching staff

TL;DR: This article explored the impact of change on tutors and managers in 24 learning sites in England, in vocational courses at Level 1 or Level 2 1 in further education (FE) colleges and in basic skills provision in adult community education and workplaces.
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‘Bowing from the heart’: An investigation into discourses of professionalism and the work of caring for students in further education

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the perceptions of some teachers and learning support workers about the nature of their relationships with each other and with students in the context of debates about the impact of public sector reform on FE colleges and teachers.
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Inbound, outbound or peripheral: the impact of discourses of ‘organisational’ professionalism on becoming a teacher in English further education

TL;DR: The authors explored constructions of teacher identities at a time of significant changes to public service professionalism, drawing on different discourses of professionalism, contrasting "organisational" and "occupational" professionalism, with discourse of personal and critical professionalism, to explore changing meanings and enactments of teacher professionalism.
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