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Direct linkBeverley Morris; Jon Thedham – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
Resilience training for Further Education (FE) managers has become an increasingly familiar aspect of management development. This paper challenges the accepted orthodoxies underpinning resilience as a 'learnable' skill required to succeed as a manager. In particular, it addresses the concepts of toxic positivity, growth mindset (Dweck) and Grit…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Postsecondary Education, Neoliberalism, Cooperation
Andrew Boocock – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2025
In this article the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) in the UK Higher Education (HE) sector is interrogated, with a focus on the Gig Academy. A literature review of the casualisation of academics in the sector is undertaken and critiqued through the consultative unitarist values and behaviours of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty
Larrea, Maria F.; Hodge, Steven; Mavin, Timothy J.; Kikkawa, Yosriko – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2022
This paper provides a perspective on learning in which training and situated learning complement each other in developing cabin crew competence. Traditionally, airlines have approached cabin crew training from a competency-based, behavioural perspective with limited engagement in the actual work context. This ethnographic study builds on…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Workplace Learning, Learning Theories, Air Transportation
See, Beng Huat; Torgerson, Carole; Gorard, Stephen; Ainsworth, Hannah; Low, Graham; Wright, Kath – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2011
The aim of the article is to identify those factors that drive the high participation in immediate post-16 and higher education of some minority ethnic groups in the UK. What could we learn from these examples to encourage higher aspirations more generally? The article reports a summary of a formal and systematic review of 1678 studies dated 1997…
Descriptors: Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Minority Groups, Literature Reviews
Pigrum, Derek – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2007
Studies in creativity most often neglect the aspect of place, of the artist's situated practices in the studio. One reason for this is that the artist's studio is one of the most difficult workplaces in which to gain entry and conduct research. This article is based on grounded research into the studio workplace of the sculptor Oswald Stimm,…
Descriptors: Artists, Studio Art, Creative Activities, Participant Observation
Walker, Caroline; Peart, David; Gleaves, Alan – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2003
The United Kingdom Merchant Navy has a very poor record on access and training for females in terms of marine careers across all levels. Furthermore, it is a world where equity and equality are often simply overlooked, partly because the difficult and harsh realities of "normal" working conditions effectively marginalise both women and…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Sex Fairness, Foreign Countries
