Defining Success in SENDAs part of the the Transformative Teaching and Learning Scholar programme Chantal Brown has been conducting research within her teaching setting at Sandwell College in the West Midlands. She is passionate about education and provision for young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) and has been researching matters relating to…
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Jennifer Addo: Transformative Teaching and Learning scholar
Black Women and Educational Leadership: the Power of Theory Jennifer works at South and City College Birmingham where she is a middle manager. She is also undertaking research and studying for a doctorate. In this video Jenn tells the story of how she first entered further education and why. She outlines the power of theory…
Ruksana Patel: Transformative Teaching and Learning scholar
Social justice and further education Ruksana works at the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London where she teaches BTEC Business Level 1 – Level 3. In her video Ruksana looks at social justice and further education. She gives us an overview of concepts drawn from different theorists (Bourdieu, Spivak, Mezirow, Bernstein and…
Heather James: transformative teaching and learning scholar
Practitioner researcher in further education In this powerful video Heather James talks about the research project she is undertaking that looks at how some students who have been referred to as ‘the forgotten third’ experience learning English at GCSE level. Heather interrogates the notion of cultural capital and the kinds of texts that feature in…
Phil Lawrence: Transformative Teaching and Learning Scholar
Practitioner Researcher in Further Education In this video, Phil Lawrence talks about the research project he is undertaking that looks at educational space and social justice. Phil is one of seven scholars being funded by UCU to undertake research into transformative teaching and learning in further education as part of the Transforming Lives project. Click…
Teaching and Learning scholar : Catherine Shiel
I am a Business Tutor and Course Leader at West Lancashire College which is a division of one of the largest FE providers in the UK. Whilst part of a national group, WLC is a small FE college at the heart of a community in the North West of England, Skelmersdale. I became a teacher…
Teaching and Learning Scholar: Heather James
Place of work: South and City College Birmingham Role: English Teacher for GCSE English Language resit students and Functional Skills adult learners My working life so far has been in community arts, youth work and education. In various roles, I have had the same ethos and always aimed to create spaces where people feel safe…
Teaching and Learning Scholar: Chantal Brown
Place of work: Sandwell College, Role: Lecturer in Foundation Learning I have supported young people with SEND in a variety of roles for over 15 years. My background is in media/drama and as well as teaching, I have been a project manager for a government funded community initiative and designed bespoke programmes of education for…
Transformative teaching & learning scholar: Phil Lawrence
This is the first post in a series in which we introduce researching practitioners from further education colleges across the country. We are going to support these scholars to carry out research into transformative teaching and learning in their practice over the coming year. We are aiming to share their progress as their ideas…
Transformative teaching and learning in further education: summative report
Transforming Lives Report In July, we completed and had published a summative report that gathers together the findings of the research so far undertaken. With a Foreword by Angela Rayner, the Shadow Education Secretary, the report turns a spotlight onto the powerful and important work that further education colleges do. We wanted to focus on…