The importance of the relationships between industry and academia is stressed by strategists, politicians, Vocational Education Training (VET) policy makers, and industrial planners. Industry without knowledge surely dies, and knowledge without application of that knowledge is valueless. This paper focuses on the relationships between the VET…

This paper examines the relationship between art "theory" and art "practice" in British art education at post-compulsory level, with a focus on the ways in which theory is framed and delivered and what this means for its integration. Drawing upon constructions of knowledge and approaches to integration as a technique and…

In the article the methodology of comparative analysis of public school teachers' continuing professional development (CPD) in Great Britain, Canada and the USA has been presented. The main objectives are defined as theoretical analysis of scientific and pedagogical literature, which highlights different aspects of the problem under research;…

This article critically examines the implementation of Exploratory Practice in an English for academic purposes (EAP) context in a British university. The innovation involved challenges as well as opportunities for uniting learning, teaching and research. Particular emphasis is given to two teachers, who are the focus of this article: the story of…

Purpose: The purpose of this case study is to describe the design and delivery of a leadership programme for a diverse group of clinicians and middle managers within a British mental health organisation. Design/methodology/approach: This paper shows how the course was co-designed between managers, clinicians and higher education, specifically to…

This paper re-considers some of the evidence for low and declining social mobility in Britain, showing that one study based on a re-analysis of cohort figures appears to have had an impact on policy-makers out of all proportion to its scale and rigor. The study claimed to show that the income of parents and children were more closely related for…

The relationship between research and teaching has been an issue in higher education for many years. Arguments about how and whether research informs teaching have been pursued since at least the early nineties. Definitive reviews at that time found little or no evidence of a causal relationship between effective undergraduate teaching and high…

This article presents an analysis of the way art is conceptualised in the British primary school curriculum and provides an historical framework that maps an evolution of ideas that have shaped the way art is presented in the modern day primary curriculum. In order to achieve this a Foucauldian style genealogical analysis is utilised to trace the…

This book examines the changes in educational policy in the U.S. and Britain over the last twenty-five years. The author contends that education in the States and Britain has been significantly transformed, through efforts to create curricular standards, increased emphasis on accountability measured by standardized tests, and efforts to introduce…

The author presents a selective but detailed account of the proceedings of the November 1986 conference of the German Association of Adult Education Centers, from a British point of view. A theme running through the proceedings is the political empowerment of adult education. A section comparing British and German adult education issues is…

Responding to John Fitz and David Halpin's paper "Researching Grant Maintained Schools," this article outlines several aspects of the grant-maintained schools needing further research, including comparisons with foreign initiatives, historical and ideological antecedents, implementation studies, and investigation of educational change…

Deconstruction of three British nursing research projects found that, due to a "Utopian" perspective, they reintroduce theory-practice gaps they sought to close. Future nursing research should avoid idealistic prescriptions and promote more skeptical and realistic approaches. (SK)

Explores the antagonism between the theoretical and practical aspects of journalism education in Australia. (HTH)

This essay challenges the dominant role of theory in educational administration, especially the notion that practitioners are solely dependent on elitist theory generators to solve pragmatic problems. Developers and consumers must be brought together to explore craft theory and authoritative explanation grounded in concrete experience. Includes…

English language teachers around the world are unsure about the appropriateness of the communicative approach (CAP) to the classroom. The problem concerns the nature of technology transfer between instrumentally oriented versus institutionally influenced English language teaching. A broader, rather than narrower version of the CAP can be adapted…