Denis Gleeson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3660328 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Denis Gleeson |
| NOMBRES | Denis |
| APELLIDO | Gleeson |
| FIRMA | GLEESON D |
| AFILIACIONES | Keele University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 135 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1943 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Youth Training and the Search for Work
Governing the governors
This paper addresses the nature of governors in the governance of further education colleges in an English context. It explores the complex relationship between governors (people/agency), government (policy/structure) and governance (practice), in a college environment. While recent research has focused on the governance of schooling and higher education there has been little attention paid to the role of governors in the lifelong learning sector…
Reluctant Leaders
The research that forms the basis for this article draws attention to a group of middle managers who are reluctant to become leaders because they seek more space and autonomy to stay in touch with their subject, their students, and their own pedagogic values and identities, family commitments and the balance between work and life. This reluctance is reinforced by their scepticism that leadership in Further Education (FE) is becoming less hierarch…
Challenging Dualism
In recent decades neo-liberal reform has significantly impacted on public sector professionals. Sociological interest in such impact has tended to focus on professionals as subjects of such reform: as either de-professionalized 'victims' who feel oppressed by the structures of control or strategic operators seeking to contest the spaces and contradictions of market, managerial and audit cultures. Such a dualism is reflective of wider separations …
On the making and taking of professionalism in the further education workplace
This paper examines the changing nature of professional practice in English further education. At a time when neo‐liberal reform has significantly impacted on this under‐researched and over‐market‐tested sector, little is known about who its practitioners are and how they construct meaning in their work. Sociological interest in the field has tended to focus on further education practitioners as either the subjects of market and managerial reform…
Modernizing schooling through performance management
This paper examines the ways in which a culture of performance has impacted on schooling in the English setting and draws parallels with other post‐industrializing nations. There is a growing awareness amongst researchers and practitioners that improving the quality of teaching and learning through performance management is not working. In education policy terms the UK Government has made much of the importance of modernizing the teaching profess…
Professor John Eggleston
(2002). Professor John Eggleston. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 307-308
Style and substance in education leadership
As governments worldwide articulate the rhetoric of a ‘knowledge economy’ traditional cultures of education management and leadership are found to be wanting. At the same time, growing recognition that market and managerial reforms have not improved levels of educational performance has increased government interest in the transformative powers of business and charismatic leadership. This paper considers this phenomenon with reference to the chan…
Under new management
This paper examines the impact of recent changes in the structure and funding of Further Education following the 1992 Further and Higher Education (FHE) Act, on conditions of academic work for lecturers in the sector. In doing so it contributes to a debate on FE lecturers’ work and professionalism in the managerial state (Clarke and Newman 1997) that has largely centred on schools. The paper assesses the impact of the shifting policy framework on…
By Appointment
This article examines the changing conditions of governance in the post‐incorporated further education (FE) sector. Six years on from the incorporation of colleges in 1993 (Further and Higher Education Act, 1992), the article considers the various ways in which FE governance finds expression in market and managerial reform in this expanding £4bn sector recovering from industrial conflict, low morale, mismanagement and, in some cases, sleaze. In t…
Managing Ambiguity
Advocates of devolved and market oriented Education reform, point to the benefits from self determination which enhance both teacher and managerial autonomy. Critics refer, on the other hand, to the ways in which running education institutions on business and accounting principles have introduced a new managerialism (Clarke et al, 1994; Pollitt, 1990; Clarke and Newman, 1997), which has driven a wedge between lecturers and senior manager interest…
No So Much the Learning Society
In the public interest
With mass post‐compulsory education and training now coming on stream the question arises, whose interests does it serve? In addressing this question this paper examines aspects of the recent expansion of Post‐Compulsory Education and Training (PCET). It explores various ways in which a market, credit and contract culture find expression in the fast changing arrangements of Post‐16 Education Policy in the UK, and whether this reflects a transitio…
Reflections on Youth Training
This paper draws on a study of trainee attitudes to youth training in the Central England region. It is part of an ongoing research project, the second stage of which analyses training provider and employers' attitudes. Drawing on a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, this paper critically examines the apparent paradox of young people expressing positive attitudes about what they see as an imperfect scheme. Following on such d…
Whatever happened to TVEI
This paper analyses some of the policy‐practice lessons learned from the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative as its influence comes to an end. Historically, perhaps, TVEI will be remembered as a moment in education policy and practice, characterizing the transitional phase from local to central determination of the curriculum. This paper considers how TVEI affected the culture of teaching, learning and curriculum in ways unintended and …
Truancy; The Politics of Compulsory Schooling
Truancy and compulsory schooling - a socio-historical account researching school attendance modes of regulation modes of resistance schooling, truancy and the new ERA. Appendices
School Attendance and Truancy
This paper considers ways in which truancy, as a form of social exclusion, has its origins in the history and politics of compulsory education. Despite widespread concern expressed about declining standards, rising indiscipline, incompetent teachers, outmoded curriculum and mounting truancy in the U.K., it is argued here that such issues are not new. Thus, for the purposes of the paper contemporary research, policy and media hype, premised on 'di…
Life Skills Training and the Politics of Personal Effectiveness
In recent years social and life skills curriculum has emerged to occupy an important place in new training initiatives, particularly those associated with YTS and pre-vocational courses such as TVEI, CPVE and City and Guids 365. one level the attraction of 'life skills' training is that it is relevant and address, in ways that traditional Liberal and General Studies could not, the practical problems likely to affect young people as adults, as par…
Communality and Conservatism in Technical Education
The role of the technical teacher in training skilled workers within the FE system has perhaps been one of the least examined aspects of the researched education system in Britain. It is not my intention here to explore why this is the case, particularly in view of contemporary debate about the importance of industrial training, but rather to examine the part technical teachers play within the existing arrangements of FE and work practice [1]. Th…
Streaming' at Work and College
Explorations in the Politics of School Knowledge
Meaning in Context
A characteristic feature of much recent debate between ethnomethodologists and others has concerned respective claims to knowledge about the social world which has resulted in a certain mystification and confusion concerning fundamental issues which have important bearing on that social world as experienced. It is suggested that one aspect of such mystification has been the 'perspectives' controversy which has arisen between competing schools of …
Fifth Annual Report of the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Challenging Dualism
In recent decades neo-liberal reform has significantly impacted on public sector professionals. Sociological interest in such impact has tended to focus on professionals as subjects of such reform: as either de-professionalized 'victims' who feel oppressed by the structures of control or strategic operators seeking to contest the spaces and contradictions of market, managerial and audit cultures. Such a dualism is reflective of wider separations …
Under new management
This paper examines the impact of recent changes in the structure and funding of Further Education following the 1992 Further and Higher Education (FHE) Act, on conditions of academic work for lecturers in the sector. In doing so it contributes to a debate on FE lecturers’ work and professionalism in the managerial state (Clarke and Newman 1997) that has largely centred on schools. The paper assesses the impact of the shifting policy framework on…
Managing Ambiguity
Advocates of devolved and market oriented Education reform, point to the benefits from self determination which enhance both teacher and managerial autonomy. Critics refer, on the other hand, to the ways in which running education institutions on business and accounting principles have introduced a new managerialism (Clarke et al, 1994; Pollitt, 1990; Clarke and Newman, 1997), which has driven a wedge between lecturers and senior manager interest…
On the making and taking of professionalism in the further education workplace
This paper examines the changing nature of professional practice in English further education. At a time when neo‐liberal reform has significantly impacted on this under‐researched and over‐market‐tested sector, little is known about who its practitioners are and how they construct meaning in their work. Sociological interest in the field has tended to focus on further education practitioners as either the subjects of market and managerial reform…
Modernizing schooling through performance management
This paper examines the ways in which a culture of performance has impacted on schooling in the English setting and draws parallels with other post‐industrializing nations. There is a growing awareness amongst researchers and practitioners that improving the quality of teaching and learning through performance management is not working. In education policy terms the UK Government has made much of the importance of modernizing the teaching profess…
Explorations in the Politics of School Knowledge
Meaning in Context
A characteristic feature of much recent debate between ethnomethodologists and others has concerned respective claims to knowledge about the social world which has resulted in a certain mystification and confusion concerning fundamental issues which have important bearing on that social world as experienced. It is suggested that one aspect of such mystification has been the 'perspectives' controversy which has arisen between competing schools of …
Reluctant Leaders
The research that forms the basis for this article draws attention to a group of middle managers who are reluctant to become leaders because they seek more space and autonomy to stay in touch with their subject, their students, and their own pedagogic values and identities, family commitments and the balance between work and life. This reluctance is reinforced by their scepticism that leadership in Further Education (FE) is becoming less hierarch…
By Appointment
This article examines the changing conditions of governance in the post‐incorporated further education (FE) sector. Six years on from the incorporation of colleges in 1993 (Further and Higher Education Act, 1992), the article considers the various ways in which FE governance finds expression in market and managerial reform in this expanding £4bn sector recovering from industrial conflict, low morale, mismanagement and, in some cases, sleaze. In t…
Governing the governors
This paper addresses the nature of governors in the governance of further education colleges in an English context. It explores the complex relationship between governors (people/agency), government (policy/structure) and governance (practice), in a college environment. While recent research has focused on the governance of schooling and higher education there has been little attention paid to the role of governors in the lifelong learning sector…
In the public interest
With mass post‐compulsory education and training now coming on stream the question arises, whose interests does it serve? In addressing this question this paper examines aspects of the recent expansion of Post‐Compulsory Education and Training (PCET). It explores various ways in which a market, credit and contract culture find expression in the fast changing arrangements of Post‐16 Education Policy in the UK, and whether this reflects a transitio…
School Attendance and Truancy
This paper considers ways in which truancy, as a form of social exclusion, has its origins in the history and politics of compulsory education. Despite widespread concern expressed about declining standards, rising indiscipline, incompetent teachers, outmoded curriculum and mounting truancy in the U.K., it is argued here that such issues are not new. Thus, for the purposes of the paper contemporary research, policy and media hype, premised on 'di…
Life Skills Training and the Politics of Personal Effectiveness
In recent years social and life skills curriculum has emerged to occupy an important place in new training initiatives, particularly those associated with YTS and pre-vocational courses such as TVEI, CPVE and City and Guids 365. one level the attraction of 'life skills' training is that it is relevant and address, in ways that traditional Liberal and General Studies could not, the practical problems likely to affect young people as adults, as par…
Style and substance in education leadership
As governments worldwide articulate the rhetoric of a ‘knowledge economy’ traditional cultures of education management and leadership are found to be wanting. At the same time, growing recognition that market and managerial reforms have not improved levels of educational performance has increased government interest in the transformative powers of business and charismatic leadership. This paper considers this phenomenon with reference to the chan…
Reflections on Youth Training
This paper draws on a study of trainee attitudes to youth training in the Central England region. It is part of an ongoing research project, the second stage of which analyses training provider and employers' attitudes. Drawing on a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, this paper critically examines the apparent paradox of young people expressing positive attitudes about what they see as an imperfect scheme. Following on such d…
Whatever happened to TVEI
This paper analyses some of the policy‐practice lessons learned from the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative as its influence comes to an end. Historically, perhaps, TVEI will be remembered as a moment in education policy and practice, characterizing the transitional phase from local to central determination of the curriculum. This paper considers how TVEI affected the culture of teaching, learning and curriculum in ways unintended and …
Truancy; The Politics of Compulsory Schooling
Truancy and compulsory schooling - a socio-historical account researching school attendance modes of regulation modes of resistance schooling, truancy and the new ERA. Appendices
Communality and Conservatism in Technical Education
The role of the technical teacher in training skilled workers within the FE system has perhaps been one of the least examined aspects of the researched education system in Britain. It is not my intention here to explore why this is the case, particularly in view of contemporary debate about the importance of industrial training, but rather to examine the part technical teachers play within the existing arrangements of FE and work practice [1]. Th…
Fifth Annual Report of the Irish Committee of Historical Sciences
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Meaning in Context
A characteristic feature of much recent debate between ethnomethodologists and others has concerned respective claims to knowledge about the social world which has resulted in a certain mystification and confusion concerning fundamental issues which have important bearing on that social world as experienced. It is suggested that one aspect of such mystification has been the 'perspectives' controversy which has arisen between competing schools of …
Explorations in the Politics of School Knowledge
Streaming' at Work and College
Communality and Conservatism in Technical Education
The role of the technical teacher in training skilled workers within the FE system has perhaps been one of the least examined aspects of the researched education system in Britain. It is not my intention here to explore why this is the case, particularly in view of contemporary debate about the importance of industrial training, but rather to examine the part technical teachers play within the existing arrangements of FE and work practice [1]. Th…
Life Skills Training and the Politics of Personal Effectiveness
In recent years social and life skills curriculum has emerged to occupy an important place in new training initiatives, particularly those associated with YTS and pre-vocational courses such as TVEI, CPVE and City and Guids 365. one level the attraction of 'life skills' training is that it is relevant and address, in ways that traditional Liberal and General Studies could not, the practical problems likely to affect young people as adults, as par…
School Attendance and Truancy
This paper considers ways in which truancy, as a form of social exclusion, has its origins in the history and politics of compulsory education. Despite widespread concern expressed about declining standards, rising indiscipline, incompetent teachers, outmoded curriculum and mounting truancy in the U.K., it is argued here that such issues are not new. Thus, for the purposes of the paper contemporary research, policy and media hype, premised on 'di…
Whatever happened to TVEI
This paper analyses some of the policy‐practice lessons learned from the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative as its influence comes to an end. Historically, perhaps, TVEI will be remembered as a moment in education policy and practice, characterizing the transitional phase from local to central determination of the curriculum. This paper considers how TVEI affected the culture of teaching, learning and curriculum in ways unintended and …
Truancy; The Politics of Compulsory Schooling
Truancy and compulsory schooling - a socio-historical account researching school attendance modes of regulation modes of resistance schooling, truancy and the new ERA. Appendices
No So Much the Learning Society
In the public interest
With mass post‐compulsory education and training now coming on stream the question arises, whose interests does it serve? In addressing this question this paper examines aspects of the recent expansion of Post‐Compulsory Education and Training (PCET). It explores various ways in which a market, credit and contract culture find expression in the fast changing arrangements of Post‐16 Education Policy in the UK, and whether this reflects a transitio…
Reflections on Youth Training
This paper draws on a study of trainee attitudes to youth training in the Central England region. It is part of an ongoing research project, the second stage of which analyses training provider and employers' attitudes. Drawing on a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, this paper critically examines the apparent paradox of young people expressing positive attitudes about what they see as an imperfect scheme. Following on such d…
Under new management
This paper examines the impact of recent changes in the structure and funding of Further Education following the 1992 Further and Higher Education (FHE) Act, on conditions of academic work for lecturers in the sector. In doing so it contributes to a debate on FE lecturers’ work and professionalism in the managerial state (Clarke and Newman 1997) that has largely centred on schools. The paper assesses the impact of the shifting policy framework on…
By Appointment
This article examines the changing conditions of governance in the post‐incorporated further education (FE) sector. Six years on from the incorporation of colleges in 1993 (Further and Higher Education Act, 1992), the article considers the various ways in which FE governance finds expression in market and managerial reform in this expanding £4bn sector recovering from industrial conflict, low morale, mismanagement and, in some cases, sleaze. In t…
Managing Ambiguity
Advocates of devolved and market oriented Education reform, point to the benefits from self determination which enhance both teacher and managerial autonomy. Critics refer, on the other hand, to the ways in which running education institutions on business and accounting principles have introduced a new managerialism (Clarke et al, 1994; Pollitt, 1990; Clarke and Newman, 1997), which has driven a wedge between lecturers and senior manager interest…
Style and substance in education leadership
As governments worldwide articulate the rhetoric of a ‘knowledge economy’ traditional cultures of education management and leadership are found to be wanting. At the same time, growing recognition that market and managerial reforms have not improved levels of educational performance has increased government interest in the transformative powers of business and charismatic leadership. This paper considers this phenomenon with reference to the chan…
Professor John Eggleston
(2002). Professor John Eggleston. British Journal of Sociology of Education: Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 307-308
Modernizing schooling through performance management
This paper examines the ways in which a culture of performance has impacted on schooling in the English setting and draws parallels with other post‐industrializing nations. There is a growing awareness amongst researchers and practitioners that improving the quality of teaching and learning through performance management is not working. In education policy terms the UK Government has made much of the importance of modernizing the teaching profess…
On the making and taking of professionalism in the further education workplace
This paper examines the changing nature of professional practice in English further education. At a time when neo‐liberal reform has significantly impacted on this under‐researched and over‐market‐tested sector, little is known about who its practitioners are and how they construct meaning in their work. Sociological interest in the field has tended to focus on further education practitioners as either the subjects of market and managerial reform…
Challenging Dualism
In recent decades neo-liberal reform has significantly impacted on public sector professionals. Sociological interest in such impact has tended to focus on professionals as subjects of such reform: as either de-professionalized 'victims' who feel oppressed by the structures of control or strategic operators seeking to contest the spaces and contradictions of market, managerial and audit cultures. Such a dualism is reflective of wider separations …
Reluctant Leaders
The research that forms the basis for this article draws attention to a group of middle managers who are reluctant to become leaders because they seek more space and autonomy to stay in touch with their subject, their students, and their own pedagogic values and identities, family commitments and the balance between work and life. This reluctance is reinforced by their scepticism that leadership in Further Education (FE) is becoming less hierarch…
Governing the governors
This paper addresses the nature of governors in the governance of further education colleges in an English context. It explores the complex relationship between governors (people/agency), government (policy/structure) and governance (practice), in a college environment. While recent research has focused on the governance of schooling and higher education there has been little attention paid to the role of governors in the lifelong learning sector…
Youth Training and the Search for Work
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