Initial Teacher Training and CPD in Further Education in Scotland

Dr Roy Canning

Lifelong Learning Group

University of Stirling

Further Education in Scotland

• 43 colleges• 350,00 students• 14 per cent of

students have a disability

• 57 per cent are females

• 4.7 per cent ethnic background

Further Education in Scotland

• Median age of males is 22 and for females 31

• Twice as much activity delivered to most deprived areas compared with affluent area

• 94 per cent of activity linked to a recognised qualification

Qualification type and subjects

Qualifications• HND, HNC, Level 3

SVQs, Level 2 SVQs, other non-advanced

Subjects• Family and personal

care, health care, IT, construction, engineering and business

Scottish Policy Context

Pre-election

• Determined to Succeed (2002)

• A Curriculum for Excellence (2004)

• Lifelong Partners (2005)

• Not in Education, Employment or Training NEET (2006)

Scottish Policy Context

Post-election• Early Years Education• School class sizes • De-cluttering of the complex delivery

networks at a local level (Enterprise and Skills)

• Increase opportunities for vocational education and strengthen links between schools, colleges and businesses

Initial Teacher Education in FE (Scotland)

• Vocational subjects• Anderson Committee

(1993) National Guidelines for ITE (1997)

• Professional Development Awards (HN units from SQA)

• Review (2002) CPD;14-16 agenda; legislative requirements;

Number of teachers by qualification type and employment 2004/5

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TQFE Other TQ Voc /no TQ Unqualified Total

Teaching Qualifications

• 89 per cent of teaching staff are teacher trained

• 50 per cent of part-time staff are teacher trained

• 96-99 per cent of all staff are qualified in their subject area

Staff in Colleges

• Majority of staff have permanent full time contracts

• Significant number of P/T staff in colleges

• More females than males employed

• Approx 10% of staff under the age of 30 years

Becoming an FE lecturer

• In –service student (TQFE) 12-18 months part-time

• Timescales on completion of TQFE: 3 years and 5 years

• Pre-service student (TQFE) –one year full-time

Becoming an FE Lecturer

Knowledge of Experience:

• Competence-based standards (codified)

• Reflective Practice• Accreditation

Ways of Knowing

‘Knowledge of Experience’

• Higher adjudicating knowledge (Kant)

• Modernity and Reflexivity (Giddens)

• ‘Professional Practitioner’ (Schon, Kolb)

Knowledge of Experience: view from no where

• Withered and diminished kind of experience

• Accumulation from the past (residue)

• Thinking about only what we already know

• Experience does not belong personally to a subject (saturated self)

• Nor does it only arise in the mediating space of subject and object

Ways of Knowing

• Conflation of experience and knowledge of experience• Immersion in the world; can’t leave you where you began• No separation of experience and experimentation; nor of

theory and practice• Pre-reflective, provisional, open, becoming • ‘risk-laden dice’• Co-production of experience (Bilett) and collective

competence (Boreham)

Raymond Williams: structures of feelingWalter Benjamin: speculative knowledgeDeleuze: Difference and repetition