Chapter
1 Introduction: the frog waiting for a kiss
Finding your way around this book
2 Parity or prejudice? The origins and purpose of FE
The Mechanics’ Institutes
Education? What did they mean?
Education versus working for a living
Education, work and social class
What today’s sector has inherited
Equality of opportunity? The Butler Act
3 Building status and dismantling the mutual damnation model
What is the mutual damnation model?
The vocational qualification framework
Does a vocational curriculum necessarily have to be instrumental?
Education, training and employability
Teacher, trainer, instructor, assessor?
Superteacher or masterchef?
4 Ladders, weddings and machinery: reading the White Papers
The language of the White Papers
Here come the skills: A New Training Initiative, 1981
Standards and competence: Working Together – Education and Training, 1986
All change! Education and Training for the 21st Century, 1991
Choice and competitiveness: White Papers 1992–95
What we say and how we say it
5 Looking for FE: how the sector is portrayed in fiction and the media
Mr Squeers and ‘vocational education’
Mr Kipps and the rat in the drainpipe
6 The Martian’s eye view: what new teachers see
Reflections about learners
Reflections about teaching
Reflections about policies and college structures
7 Playing up and dumbing down? From liberal studies to functional skills
Education or training: is there a difference?
Pring on liberal and vocational education
Unity or parity? The qualifications debate
Liberal studies: who wanted them and what were they for?
From core skills to key skills to functional skills
8 ‘The culture of respect’: motivation and behaviour in FE
Disengagement, non-compliance and challenging behaviour
Typical classroom behaviour?
Respect, rules, razzmatazz and rewards
Looking beyond the surface: reading and interpreting learner behaviour
9 Letters from the front: insider discourse
10 Conclusions and applications
Summaries of themes and arguments
Applying what we’ve learnt in practice
Using these themes and arguments in assignments
Ways forward: what teachers can do
Ways forward: policy and practice
Understanding the Further Education Sector
：A critical guide to policies and practices
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