John K Field
Biographic Data
| ID | 5819350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John K Field |
| GIVEN NAMES | John K |
| FAMILY NAME | Field |
| SIGNATURE | FIELD J K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3951-6365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Attitudes towards the integration of smoking cessation into lung cancer screening in the United Kingdom
INTRODUCTION: There is limited research exploring how smoking cessation treatment should be implemented into lung cancer screening in the United Kingdom. This study aimed to understand attitudes and preferences regarding the integration of smoking cessation support within lung cancer screening from the perspective of those eligible. METHODS: Thirty-one lung cancer screening eligible individuals aged 55-80 years with current or former smoking hist…
Soldiers as Citizens
Nick Mansfield has produced a series of studies that combine social and military history. His 2016 volume, Soldiers as Workers, was particularly noteworthy in exploring the complexity and tensions of class and soldiering in the nineteenth-century British military. Rejecting what he saw as the superficial accounts of the military in much British social history, Mansfield argued that both officers and rank-and-file soldiers continued to display att…
Being an adult learner in austere times
International organisations and the construction of the learning active citizen
The article analyses how citizenship is conceptualised in policy documents of four key international organisations. The basic assumption is that public policy has not turned away from adult learning for active citizenship, but that there are rather new ways in which international governmental organisations conceptualise and in some cases seek to operationalise active citizenship in the context of their thinking on lifelong learning. We argue that…
Association between smoking and health outcomes in an economically deprived population
BACKGROUND: The association between smoking and several health outcomes among those from the most deprived communities in the UK has not previously been detailed. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of smoking on health outcomes specifically among a particularly deprived population in a developed country (Liverpool; one of the most deprived local authorities in England). METHODS: The Liverpool Lung Project recruited a prospective cohor…
Social Capital
The term ‘social capital’ is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable international currency across the social sciences through the very different work of Pierre Bourdieu in France and James Coleman and Robert Putnam in the United States, and has been widely taken up within politics and sociology as an explanation for the decline in social cohes…
Electronic cigarette use and risk perception in a Stop Smoking Service in England
Introduction: Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use rose substantially within the UK in recent years but currently, Stop Smoking Services in England do not prescribe them due to a lack of regulation. Previous research has examined e-cigarette use and attitudes within English Stop Smoking Services using samples of practitioners and managers; the current study recruited a sample of service users. Methods: Participants (N1⁄4319) aged 18–60 years ol…
Reappraising the importance of class in higher education entry and persistence
Social class is a major determining factor of people's life chances. Much sociology-based research shows that socio-economic position is still one of the best predictors of who will achieve success, prosperity and social status and, in particular, who will enjoy the highest levels of educational outcomes. Survey data and qualitative studies alike confirm that many people continue to see class as a feature of everyday life, in ways that are connec…
Learning Through the Ages? Generational Inequalities and Inter-Generational Dynamics of Lifelong Learning
This exploratory paper considers the concept of generation in the context of learning across the life course. Although researchers have often found considerable inequalities in participation by age, as well as strongly articulated attitudinal differences, there have so far been only a handful of studies that have explored these patterns through the perspective of generational formations. The paper is primarily conceptual, exploratory and reflecti…
Good for your soul? Adult learning and mental well‐being
Although there is a widely held view that adult learning has a positive impact on well‐being, only recently has this proposition been systematically tested. A review of recent research confirms that adult learning has a clear influence on earnings and employability, both of which may influence well‐being indirectly. These are more important for some groups than others: in economically advanced societies, additional earnings produce limited gains …
Social Capital
The term ‘social capital’ is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable international currency across the social sciences through the very different work of Pierre Bourdieu in France and James Coleman and Robert Putnam in the United States, and has been widely taken up within politics and sociology as an explanation for the decline in social cohes…
Promoting Social Capital in a 'Risk Society
Social capital theory has been widely debated across the social sciences. Its core idea is that relationships and norms have a value, in that they enable individuals and groups to co-operate for mutual benefit. The role of social capital appears to be changing in the context of the self-aware reflexivity that characterises contemporary 'risk society'. This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors: the first defends the concept's…
Understanding Participation in Learning for Non-traditional Adult Learners
Concepts of learner identities and learning careers have recently acquired popularity as ways of analysing participation in learning among young adults. This paper presents a conceptual challenge to unilinear approaches to the concept of learning careers. It draws on empirical data gathered during a study of new entrants to Scottish further education colleges, and illustrates the analysis through two biographical studies. It argues that learner i…
Social Capital
In her recent contribution to the British Educational Research Journal, Pauline McClenaghan identified the link between social capital and community development, particularly community development education, as a core area where scholarly and policy interests overlap. She concluded that the concept of social capital is unable to grapple with the complex social divisions that characterise contemporary Europe. The authors of this article question h…
Learning careers and the social space
This paper examines the concept of 'learning careers' as a way of understanding the processes through which adults return to education. It particularly considers the ways in which adults from groups who are at risk of social exclusion develop identities that enable them to engage with learning. The concept of learning careers is derived from symbolic interactionist theory, with its origins in the work of the Chicago School. To illuminate the conc…
Educational Studies beyond School
This article explores disciplinary approaches to educa-tional studies over the past fifty years, in particular those developed by exponents of the ’foundation disciplines’ of history, philosophy, psychology and sociology. It investigates the establishment of the disciplines during the first half of the period, and their consolidation, survival, and adaptation since the 1970s in a rapidly changing educational and political context. The nature of t…
Hillslope processes and archaeology in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Record levels of precipitation during February 1992 generated 290 earth flows and earth slumps in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. Geomorphologic and sedimentological characteristics of these landslides and older colluvial deposits were used to identify the dominant mass-wasting processes active in the wadi. Earth flows in 1992 left long linear scars on the steep hillsides and deposited thin, fine and coarse-grained, sheets on the well-developed colluvial sl…
Competency and the Pedagogy of Labour
A Comparison of the Classification Accuracy of Profile Similarity Measures
Thirteen profile similarity measures were compared, using generated data. Profiles were generated from sets of three standards by adding random and normally distributed error components to the profile points of the standards. The three standards within each set were vaned systematically, altering the elevation, scatter, and shape similarities between the standards. A correct classification occurred if the generated profile was most similar to the…
The Evolution of a Medical Center. A History of Medicine at Duke University to 1941
Understanding Participation in Learning for Non-traditional Adult Learners
Concepts of learner identities and learning careers have recently acquired popularity as ways of analysing participation in learning among young adults. This paper presents a conceptual challenge to unilinear approaches to the concept of learning careers. It draws on empirical data gathered during a study of new entrants to Scottish further education colleges, and illustrates the analysis through two biographical studies. It argues that learner i…
Learning careers and the social space
This paper examines the concept of 'learning careers' as a way of understanding the processes through which adults return to education. It particularly considers the ways in which adults from groups who are at risk of social exclusion develop identities that enable them to engage with learning. The concept of learning careers is derived from symbolic interactionist theory, with its origins in the work of the Chicago School. To illuminate the conc…
Good for your soul? Adult learning and mental well‐being
Although there is a widely held view that adult learning has a positive impact on well‐being, only recently has this proposition been systematically tested. A review of recent research confirms that adult learning has a clear influence on earnings and employability, both of which may influence well‐being indirectly. These are more important for some groups than others: in economically advanced societies, additional earnings produce limited gains …
Social Capital
In her recent contribution to the British Educational Research Journal, Pauline McClenaghan identified the link between social capital and community development, particularly community development education, as a core area where scholarly and policy interests overlap. She concluded that the concept of social capital is unable to grapple with the complex social divisions that characterise contemporary Europe. The authors of this article question h…
Promoting Social Capital in a 'Risk Society
Social capital theory has been widely debated across the social sciences. Its core idea is that relationships and norms have a value, in that they enable individuals and groups to co-operate for mutual benefit. The role of social capital appears to be changing in the context of the self-aware reflexivity that characterises contemporary 'risk society'. This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors: the first defends the concept's…
International organisations and the construction of the learning active citizen
The article analyses how citizenship is conceptualised in policy documents of four key international organisations. The basic assumption is that public policy has not turned away from adult learning for active citizenship, but that there are rather new ways in which international governmental organisations conceptualise and in some cases seek to operationalise active citizenship in the context of their thinking on lifelong learning. We argue that…
Competency and the Pedagogy of Labour
Reappraising the importance of class in higher education entry and persistence
Social class is a major determining factor of people's life chances. Much sociology-based research shows that socio-economic position is still one of the best predictors of who will achieve success, prosperity and social status and, in particular, who will enjoy the highest levels of educational outcomes. Survey data and qualitative studies alike confirm that many people continue to see class as a feature of everyday life, in ways that are connec…
Learning Through the Ages? Generational Inequalities and Inter-Generational Dynamics of Lifelong Learning
This exploratory paper considers the concept of generation in the context of learning across the life course. Although researchers have often found considerable inequalities in participation by age, as well as strongly articulated attitudinal differences, there have so far been only a handful of studies that have explored these patterns through the perspective of generational formations. The paper is primarily conceptual, exploratory and reflecti…
A Comparison of the Classification Accuracy of Profile Similarity Measures
Thirteen profile similarity measures were compared, using generated data. Profiles were generated from sets of three standards by adding random and normally distributed error components to the profile points of the standards. The three standards within each set were vaned systematically, altering the elevation, scatter, and shape similarities between the standards. A correct classification occurred if the generated profile was most similar to the…
The Evolution of a Medical Center. A History of Medicine at Duke University to 1941
Competency and the Pedagogy of Labour
Hillslope processes and archaeology in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Record levels of precipitation during February 1992 generated 290 earth flows and earth slumps in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan. Geomorphologic and sedimentological characteristics of these landslides and older colluvial deposits were used to identify the dominant mass-wasting processes active in the wadi. Earth flows in 1992 left long linear scars on the steep hillsides and deposited thin, fine and coarse-grained, sheets on the well-developed colluvial sl…
Learning careers and the social space
This paper examines the concept of 'learning careers' as a way of understanding the processes through which adults return to education. It particularly considers the ways in which adults from groups who are at risk of social exclusion develop identities that enable them to engage with learning. The concept of learning careers is derived from symbolic interactionist theory, with its origins in the work of the Chicago School. To illuminate the conc…
Educational Studies beyond School
This article explores disciplinary approaches to educa-tional studies over the past fifty years, in particular those developed by exponents of the ’foundation disciplines’ of history, philosophy, psychology and sociology. It investigates the establishment of the disciplines during the first half of the period, and their consolidation, survival, and adaptation since the 1970s in a rapidly changing educational and political context. The nature of t…
Promoting Social Capital in a 'Risk Society
Social capital theory has been widely debated across the social sciences. Its core idea is that relationships and norms have a value, in that they enable individuals and groups to co-operate for mutual benefit. The role of social capital appears to be changing in the context of the self-aware reflexivity that characterises contemporary 'risk society'. This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors: the first defends the concept's…
Understanding Participation in Learning for Non-traditional Adult Learners
Concepts of learner identities and learning careers have recently acquired popularity as ways of analysing participation in learning among young adults. This paper presents a conceptual challenge to unilinear approaches to the concept of learning careers. It draws on empirical data gathered during a study of new entrants to Scottish further education colleges, and illustrates the analysis through two biographical studies. It argues that learner i…
Social Capital
In her recent contribution to the British Educational Research Journal, Pauline McClenaghan identified the link between social capital and community development, particularly community development education, as a core area where scholarly and policy interests overlap. She concluded that the concept of social capital is unable to grapple with the complex social divisions that characterise contemporary Europe. The authors of this article question h…
Social Capital
The term ‘social capital’ is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable international currency across the social sciences through the very different work of Pierre Bourdieu in France and James Coleman and Robert Putnam in the United States, and has been widely taken up within politics and sociology as an explanation for the decline in social cohes…
Good for your soul? Adult learning and mental well‐being
Although there is a widely held view that adult learning has a positive impact on well‐being, only recently has this proposition been systematically tested. A review of recent research confirms that adult learning has a clear influence on earnings and employability, both of which may influence well‐being indirectly. These are more important for some groups than others: in economically advanced societies, additional earnings produce limited gains …
Reappraising the importance of class in higher education entry and persistence
Social class is a major determining factor of people's life chances. Much sociology-based research shows that socio-economic position is still one of the best predictors of who will achieve success, prosperity and social status and, in particular, who will enjoy the highest levels of educational outcomes. Survey data and qualitative studies alike confirm that many people continue to see class as a feature of everyday life, in ways that are connec…
Learning Through the Ages? Generational Inequalities and Inter-Generational Dynamics of Lifelong Learning
This exploratory paper considers the concept of generation in the context of learning across the life course. Although researchers have often found considerable inequalities in participation by age, as well as strongly articulated attitudinal differences, there have so far been only a handful of studies that have explored these patterns through the perspective of generational formations. The paper is primarily conceptual, exploratory and reflecti…
Electronic cigarette use and risk perception in a Stop Smoking Service in England
Introduction: Electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) use rose substantially within the UK in recent years but currently, Stop Smoking Services in England do not prescribe them due to a lack of regulation. Previous research has examined e-cigarette use and attitudes within English Stop Smoking Services using samples of practitioners and managers; the current study recruited a sample of service users. Methods: Participants (N1⁄4319) aged 18–60 years ol…
Social Capital
The term ‘social capital’ is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It has achieved considerable international currency across the social sciences through the very different work of Pierre Bourdieu in France and James Coleman and Robert Putnam in the United States, and has been widely taken up within politics and sociology as an explanation for the decline in social cohes…
International organisations and the construction of the learning active citizen
The article analyses how citizenship is conceptualised in policy documents of four key international organisations. The basic assumption is that public policy has not turned away from adult learning for active citizenship, but that there are rather new ways in which international governmental organisations conceptualise and in some cases seek to operationalise active citizenship in the context of their thinking on lifelong learning. We argue that…
Association between smoking and health outcomes in an economically deprived population
BACKGROUND: The association between smoking and several health outcomes among those from the most deprived communities in the UK has not previously been detailed. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of smoking on health outcomes specifically among a particularly deprived population in a developed country (Liverpool; one of the most deprived local authorities in England). METHODS: The Liverpool Lung Project recruited a prospective cohor…
Being an adult learner in austere times
Attitudes towards the integration of smoking cessation into lung cancer screening in the United Kingdom
INTRODUCTION: There is limited research exploring how smoking cessation treatment should be implemented into lung cancer screening in the United Kingdom. This study aimed to understand attitudes and preferences regarding the integration of smoking cessation support within lung cancer screening from the perspective of those eligible. METHODS: Thirty-one lung cancer screening eligible individuals aged 55-80 years with current or former smoking hist…
Soldiers as Citizens
Nick Mansfield has produced a series of studies that combine social and military history. His 2016 volume, Soldiers as Workers, was particularly noteworthy in exploring the complexity and tensions of class and soldiering in the nineteenth-century British military. Rejecting what he saw as the superficial accounts of the military in much British social history, Mansfield argued that both officers and rank-and-file soldiers continued to display att…
Sociology (14 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Adult education (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Education Systems and Policy (4 works)