'It Wasn't the "Wilt" Experience' (at Least for Some): Vocational Students' Historical Experiences of Liberal Studies

Autor/in	Simmons, Robin
Titel	'It Wasn't the "Wilt" Experience' (at Least for Some): Vocational Students' Historical Experiences of Liberal Studies
Quelle	In: Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 25 (2020) 1, S.91-109 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Simmons, Robin)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1359 6748
DOI	10.1080/13596748.2020.1720169
Schlagwörter	Vocational Education; Liberal Arts; College Students; Student Experience; Foreign Countries; Educational History; Novels; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Collegestudent; Studienerfahrung; Ausland; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Novel; Roman
Abstract	This paper focuses on the historical experiences of a set of former vocational students, all of whom undertook a course of liberal studies whilst attending an English college of further education at some point between the mid-1960s and the late-1980s. It is set against the backdrop of Tom Sharpe's novel, "Wilt," which both lampooned the antics of the beleaguered liberal studies teacher, Henry Wilt, and presented vocational students (and lecturers) as narrow-minded, unruly and inherently hostile to academic learning. The data presented here, taken from a programme of narrative research with participants, many of whom eventually went on to teach in vocational further and higher education themselves, go some way towards challenging such stereotypes. Whilst it is evident that their experiences were varied and uneven, most participants remembered liberal studies as fairly relaxed and student-centred, and the majority were positive about their experiences of liberal studies, particularly in retrospect. (As Provided).
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Update	2022/1/01