Roseanne Benn
Biographic Data
| ID | 6300041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roseanne Benn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roseanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Benn |
| SIGNATURE | BENN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The genesis of active citizenship in the learning society
This paper, building on definitions of citizenship from the literature, develops a list of attributes that promotes active citizenship. It then reports on the results of a survey of adult education participants, which aimed to identify, where, if anywhere, these abilities had been acquired. It concludes that the workplace is the main site of learning of citizenship skills with the school setting doing particularly badly. There are messages for ad…
Strangers in a Strange Land
Access and targeting
To attempt to understand Access to Higher Education provision as an educational social movement is to become caught up in a dialectial dilemma. Is Access allied to the older radical traditions of adult education through a collective emancipatory role or is its role to serve the educational needs of the individual student and/or the economic needs of society? Research carried out at the University of Exeter has shown that while there is a strong r…
Participation and the Mathematics Deterrent
Government policies on university expansion and wider access, 1945–51 and 1985–91 compared
This article contrasts two models of access to higher education—the post-war expansion of the late 1940s and the wider access movement of the late 1980s. Increased direct government funding for the universities led to a 60% increase in student numbers between 1945–46 and 1950–51, intended to meet the manpower requirements of post-war society. The then Labour Government showed no desire to change radically the nature of the universities or their r…
The genesis of active citizenship in the learning society
This paper, building on definitions of citizenship from the literature, develops a list of attributes that promotes active citizenship. It then reports on the results of a survey of adult education participants, which aimed to identify, where, if anywhere, these abilities had been acquired. It concludes that the workplace is the main site of learning of citizenship skills with the school setting doing particularly badly. There are messages for ad…
Access and targeting
To attempt to understand Access to Higher Education provision as an educational social movement is to become caught up in a dialectial dilemma. Is Access allied to the older radical traditions of adult education through a collective emancipatory role or is its role to serve the educational needs of the individual student and/or the economic needs of society? Research carried out at the University of Exeter has shown that while there is a strong r…
Government policies on university expansion and wider access, 1945–51 and 1985–91 compared
This article contrasts two models of access to higher education—the post-war expansion of the late 1940s and the wider access movement of the late 1980s. Increased direct government funding for the universities led to a 60% increase in student numbers between 1945–46 and 1950–51, intended to meet the manpower requirements of post-war society. The then Labour Government showed no desire to change radically the nature of the universities or their r…
Participation and the Mathematics Deterrent
Strangers in a Strange Land
Access and targeting
To attempt to understand Access to Higher Education provision as an educational social movement is to become caught up in a dialectial dilemma. Is Access allied to the older radical traditions of adult education through a collective emancipatory role or is its role to serve the educational needs of the individual student and/or the economic needs of society? Research carried out at the University of Exeter has shown that while there is a strong r…
The genesis of active citizenship in the learning society
This paper, building on definitions of citizenship from the literature, develops a list of attributes that promotes active citizenship. It then reports on the results of a survey of adult education participants, which aimed to identify, where, if anywhere, these abilities had been acquired. It concludes that the workplace is the main site of learning of citizenship skills with the school setting doing particularly badly. There are messages for ad…
Political science (5 works) · Pedagogy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Global Education and Multiculturalism (2 works) · Higher education (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works)