'An analysis of the factors leading to challenging behaviour as a symptom of demotivation in the Further Education sector: an investigation into the creative processes provided by the arts as an antidote to demotivation' has recently been completed.
Jeremy Holloway
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Bethan Marshall's 'Creating Danger;
the place of the arts in education policy'
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'Creativity and Performativity: the case of further education'
by Robin Simmons and Ron Thompson
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'Hypertext fiction reading: Haptics and immersion',
a fascinating piece on the ontological intangibility of digital texts by Anna Mangen.
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Employers and the Post Compulsory Curriculum
Is it actually possible to create inspirational tutors while the government is endeavoring to raise the compulsory education age to 17 and then 18?
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Inspirational teacher Edward Vickerman has just been awarded the SSAT award
Edward Vickerman was told he'd never make a teacher, because of his dyslexia.
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Learning to learn by reflecting
Tutors as well as students have to learn to reflect to learn (or this is a reflective account of my reflective journal)
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Lets sort out the behavioural problems first....
Compulsory or Post-compulsory?
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Local artist Gill Bowley generates ideas from beach combings, hedge combings and the diversity of growth forms.
Here Gill reminisces about her schooling in Dorset and what has inspired her.
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The Institute for Learning's "Learner Voice" asks: "What makes a brilliant teacher?"
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Making of Me
by Jen Lexmond & Shelagh Wright
October 2009
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Guy Claxton invites debate on his eight character strengths and virtues for the learning age.
We seem to live in a morally bashful age. Perish the thought that anyone might try to 'impose their values' on anyone else. Education colludes with this squeamishness by pretending that the only serious questions it faces are technical ones.

John Burnett is currently carrying a number of roles in addition to that of Programme Director for Steiner Waldorf BA. He is responsible to the Faculty for the development of the new Foundation Degree in Steiner Waldorf Early Years Education and carries overall responsibility for the European Masters Programme.