The Best Years of Their Lives?

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Pupil's Experiences of School

By: Cedric Cullingford

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Paperback | 1 May 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Based on structured research and interviews with pupils in years 10 and 11 (15 ^DDS 16 years old) about their views of the purpose of school and their own future employment and the way the two connect, this book offers a blistering critique of the purpose of education and its ability to prepare children for the world of work. The issues raised include: the purpose of school, the nature and quality of the curriculum, whether their time was well spent, whether what they learned was relevant, who influenced them, their views of industry and the world outside. Out of the mouths of babes, the truth comes tumbling and the result is a shocking indictment of an educational system that fails to deliver what it sets out to achieve.

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Non-Fiction Education Organisation & Management of Education Students & Student Organisations Curriculum Planning & Development Higher & Further Education

Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
Research methods: hearing what pupils say	p. 13
The sample and method	p. 13
Ethical issues with pupils	p. 15
Informed consent?	p. 16
Listening to children	p. 18
Institutionalizing ethics	p. 19
Prescriptive versus descriptive approaches	p. 20
Real consent	p. 22
The role of the researcher	p. 23
The boundaries of confidentiality	p. 24
Responsibility, accountability and democratic control	p. 25
Conclusions	p. 27
Submission? Pupils' attitudes to school	p. 34
Formative stages?	p. 34
Finding the positives	p. 35
Rites of passage of a kind	p. 36
The demands of school	p. 38
Control and disorder	p. 40
The routine of school	p. 43
Pupils' perceptions of the purpose of school	p. 46
What purpose?	p. 46
The social context	p. 48
Outcomes or judgements?	p. 50
Reasons for being in school?	p. 52
From work in school to paid work	p. 56
Nostalgia or regret? The summary experience	p. 60
The past is another country?	p. 60
Looking back on experiences	p. 63
Regrets, personal; and institutional	p. 67
The central part of life	p. 71
Happier days?	p. 72
The subject of the curriculum	p. 75
The National Curriculum as a necessity	p. 75
The given core	p. 77
Subjects and knowledge	p. 80
Usefulness and utility	p. 82
Skills learnt in school: for use or survival?	p. 84
The monument of knowledge	p. 84
What should be learnt?	p. 86
Formal and personal skills	p. 88
What are 'key' skills?	p. 90
Skills of schools and skills of living	p. 92
The most essential skill	p. 96
Experiencing school: learning about relationships	p. 99
The essential learning	p. 99
The anti-social undercurrents of schools	p. 101
The social atmosphere of learning	p. 103
Waiting for something to happen	p. 105
All that remains unnoticed	p. 107
The seeking of challenges	p. 109
The half-hidden malaise of school	p. 111
Culpable witness	p. 113
Pupils' relationship with teachers	p. 117
The role of teachers	p. 117
The dominance of being taught	p. 121
The psychological absence of teachers	p. 123
Fairness and unfairness	p. 125
The inner curriculum of teaching	p. 128
Teacher dependency	p. 131
Teachers as roles, teachers as people	p. 133
The learning styles of pupils	p. 136
Teaching styles and learning styles	p. 136
Groups, gangs and tribes	p. 139
Learning to survive	p. 141
Working together or in competition	p. 143
The temptations of groups	p. 146
Avoiding routines	p. 147
The pleasures of collaboration	p. 150
Conclusions	p. 153
School and life beyond	p. 155
Rites of passage	p. 155
Do schools connect?	p. 159
School as employment	p. 161
The ambivalent security of school	p. 163
The exposure to the job market	p. 165
Conclusions	p. 169
The social context of school	p. 171
Conclusions	p. 191
References	p. 206
Index	p. 213
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