Will Curtis

Will Curtis

Responding to shifting landscapes: Educational authority and characters of lectureship

The paper considers what impact changes in further education structures and cultures have had on lecturers’ professional identities. As traditional sources of authority become increasingly open to contestation, it examines various responses. Based on an eighteen-month ethnographic study in a further education college in the south-west of England, it uncovers…

Learning identities and characters of studentship: an alternative to learning styles

The paper argues that a focus on learning styles has obscured the complex nature of student experience and need. Drawing on broadly postmodern conceptualisations, the paper contends that contemporary identities are essentially fluid, fractured and plural. In attempting to make sense of learning experiences, therefore, an understanding of student identities…