"Nothing Will Prevent Me from Doing a Good Job". The Professionalisation of Part-Time Teaching Staff in Further and Adult Education

Autor/inn/en	Jameson, Jill; Hillier, Yvonne
Titel	"Nothing Will Prevent Me from Doing a Good Job". The Professionalisation of Part-Time Teaching Staff in Further and Adult Education
Quelle	In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 13 (2008) 1, S.39-53 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359-6748
Schlagwörter	Professional Autonomy; Community Education; Adult Education; Part Time Faculty; Teaching Conditions; Educational Improvement; Professional Recognition; Part Time Employment; Tenure; Foreign Countries; Questionnaires; Interviews; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufsfreiheit; ; Gemeinschaftserziehung; Nachbarschaftserziehung; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Lehrbedingungen; Unterrichtsbedingungen; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Part-time employment; Teilzeitbeschäftigung; Amtszeit; Beschäftigungsdauer; Ausland; Fragebogen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Großbritannien
Abstract	Approximately 85,000 part-time teaching staff working in further education (FE) and adult and community learning (ACL) are often seen as "a problem". The intrinsic "part-timeness" of these staff tends to marginalise them: they remain under-recognised and largely unsupported. Yet this picture is over-simplified. This article examines how part-time staff make creative use of professional autonomy and agency to mitigate problematic "casual employment" conditions, reporting on results from Learning and Skills Development Agency-sponsored research (2002-2006) with 700 part-time staff in the learning and skills sector. The question of agency was reported as a key factor in part-time employment. Change is necessary for the professional agency of part-timers to be harnessed as the sector responds to ambitious sectoral "improvement" agendas following the Foster Report and FE White Paper. Enhanced professionalisation for part-time staff needs greater recognition and inclusion in change agendas. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10