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Fenwick, Tara – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2014
In studies of professional learning, the rise of sociomaterial accounts draw attention to the political importance of nonhuman as well as human actors, the material as well as discursive, as inter-related in knowing and action. Of particular relevance to the issue of inter-professional work in health services, some researchers have argued that…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Paraprofessional Personnel, Learning Theories, Vocational Education
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Preston, John; Avery, Barry; Chakrabarty, Namita; Edmonds, Casey – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Emergency preparedness can be considered to be a form of lifelong learning and public pedagogy with implications for race equality. The paper is based on an ESRC project "Preparedness pedagogies and race: an interdisciplinary approach" considering the policy process around the construction of the "Preparing for Emergencies"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Emergency Programs, Lifelong Learning, Information Dissemination
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Chakrabarty, Namita – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2012
Based on extracts from an ethnography produced during the ESRC 2009-10 research project, ""Preparedness Pedagogies" and Race: An Interdisciplinary Approach," this article explores the racialized culture of civil defence in the UK whilst also critiquing the world of higher education. The ethnographic artefacts of interviews,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Race, Figurative Language, Interdisciplinary Approach