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After decades of uncertainty about the future of education and work, the global pandemic has further undermined old ideas about post-compulsory education as a route to well-defined occupations and identities. The profound disruption of economic and social life before and during the COVID crisis has summoned up new aspirations for individuals and the world they inhabit; yet it also provides little clarity about educational routes to achieve them.
Post-16 education, which had already begun to shake off its relative obscurity in several countries, has been further propelled towards the top of policy agendas by the recent crisis. Yet it remains unclear whether in the post-COVID world it will be the enabler of a new flourishing of meaningful work and lives in a more sustainable world; or a tool for the imposition of new constraints on such aspirations, with a further narrowing of programmes and practices preparing students and educators alike for unequal, routinised or workless futures.
This session brings together several papers submitted to the BERA Conference in the Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning SIG on the eve of the pandemic. The research they report remains strikingly relevant, as important indications of the dilemmas and challenges now facing this educational sphere. They range from the economic context of technologised work(lessness), through the heightening of social inequalities, to the living concerns of both educators and students in this field.
Professor of PCE at University of Derby
James Avis in an Emeritus Professor of the university of Huddersfield & Prof of post-compulsory education at the university of Derby. His research interests lie in post-compulsory/post-secondary education and life-long learning. He has written...
Progression Manager - Widening Participation at Leeds Arts University
Martell Baines role is the Progression Widening Participation (WP) Manager at Leeds Arts University and a practitioner researcher. She is the current (2020 21) Chair of the Access and Participation Strategy Group for the Office for Students...
Director & Lead Trainer at Real Time Education Limited (ITP)
Hello, I'm Lynne Taylerson, a post-16 lecturer, teacher educator, mentor and director of Real Time Education, an independent training provider. My doctoral research used a netnographic approach to investigate FE practitioners’ use of social...
Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University
Dr Christina Donovan is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Faculty of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University, having previously worked in the Further Education sector. Her doctoral studies explored the nature of trust and distrust and its...
HE Lecturer; FET tutor at South East Technological University
Sarah Bates Evoy is a lecturer and researcher in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning in Waterford Institute of Technology (Ireland) and a further education tutor in the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board. Her present...
Professor at University of Derby
Charlotte’s research is in the field of social justice in education with a particular focus on race (in)equality and on the way in which different kinds of inequalities are produced and reproduced in educational spaces and by educational...
Subjects Leader Postgraduate Studies at Leeds Arts University
Frances Ann Norton’s current research investigates strategies to develop student critical thinking, using Community of Inquiry (CoI) as a methodology with non-traditional and lifelong learners. A conceptual framework built on the ideas of...
Professor of Sociology at University of Essex
John is Professor of Sociology at the University of Essex and an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Leadership Fellow in Conflict, Crime and Security. John works on the sociology of disasters, emergencies, and existential threat. He also...
Head of Research at Leeds Arts University
Professor Samantha Broadhead is the Head of Research at Leeds Arts University. Her research interests are related to widening participation, in particular the Access to HE education and the experiences of mature students. She is also interested...
Professor in youth and community education, professor in critical pedagogy and national officer at St. Marys University
Operating at the nexus of practice, theory and policy making, I have worked in the multiple disadvantage, homeless and youth and community work sectors and concurrently within higher education for over 35 years My overall aim is to develop an...
Professor at University of Derby
Bill Esmond is Professor of Professional Education and Training at the University of Derby. His work examines the policies, structures, institutions and discourses that shape the spaces and practices of learning and work internationally. Recent...
The sector of post-compulsory education and lifelong learning is a wide and diverse one, covering areas such as the study of 14-19 education and training, further and higher education, adult...
Overall, teacher educators generally tend to be seen as ‘an ill-defined, under researched and sometimes beleaguered occupational group’ (Menter, Hulme, Elliott, & Lewin, 2010: 11). BERA and...
Although seminal teacher career models (Day, Sammons, Stobart, Kington, & Gu, 2007; Fessler & Christensen, 1992; Huberman, 1993; Sikes, Measor, & Woods, 1985) have established predetermined...
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