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Unlocking the Potential of Skills for Life (SfL) Tutors and Learners: a critical evaluation of the implementation of SfL policy in England

Gregson, Margaret and Nixon, Lawrence (2011) Unlocking the Potential of Skills for Life (SfL) Tutors and Learners: a critical evaluation of the implementation of SfL policy in England. Unlocking the Potential of Skills for Life (SfL) Tutors and Learners: a critical evaluation of the implementation of SfL policy in England. ISSN 2040-0993

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Abstract

This paper uses data from interviews with eleven Skills for Life (SfL) practitioners in the North East of England to highlight how instruments for the implementation and evaluation of SfL policy are shaping practice at the local level. The paper concludes that the means being used to implement and evaluate the success of SfL policy are constraining practice in a number of ways which are not in line with the intentions of political or policy professionals. Such unintended consequences range from responses to SfL policy which simply frame practice in terms of outward imperatives of the market; through to technical-instrumental responses construed in terms of the simple acquisition of a set of pre-specified ‘skills’; to other, more inwardly directed responses, premised upon concerns for the more holistic educational needs of learners.

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Depositing User: Jane Moore

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Item ID: 2417
ISSN: 2040-0993
ISBN: 20400993
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/2417
Official URL: https://www.teachinginlifelonglearning.org.uk/arti...

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ORCID for Margaret Gregson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2195-3738

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Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2011 16:22
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2020 10:49

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Author: Margaret Gregson ORCID iD
Author: Lawrence Nixon

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Faculty of Education and Society
Faculty of Education and Society > School of Education

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