Project Activities

The overall strategy of the project is to track the ‘learning journeys' of groups of FE students and lecturers over a two-year period. Research will be carried out across three colleges of FE to include a variety of academic and occupational areas. Data collection will include the use of semi-structured life-history and life-course interviews with students and teachers, the completion of an on-going learning journal by the same students and teachers and focus group interviews with additional students.

Ethnographic classroom observation will be carried out in a range of learning sites such as classrooms, laboratories and workshops and together with documentary analysis of schemes of study and other materials will provides detailed insights into the nature of the every-day social interactions.

The following table presents a summary of activities: