Civilising the natives? Liberal studies in further education revisited

This paper uses Basil Bernstein’s work on pedagogic discourses to examine a largely neglected facet of the history of vocational education – the liberal studies movement in English further education (FE) colleges. Initially, the paper discusses some of the competing conceptions of education, work and society which underpinned the rise and fall of the liberal studies movement – if indeed it can be described as such. It then draws on data from interviews with former liberal and general studies (LS/GS) lecturers to focus on the ways in which different variants of liberal studies were, over time, implicated in inculcating certain forms of knowledge in vocational learners. Whilst it is acknowledged that LS/GS always represented contested territory and that it was highly variable both in terms of content and quality, the paper argues that, at least and under certain circumstances, liberal studies provided young working-class people with the opportunity to locate their experiences of vocational learning within a critical framework which is largely absent from FE today. This, it is argued, can be conceptualised as an engagement with what Bernstein described as ‘powerful knowledge’

Report for the Period 1983-85 National Institute of Agricultural Engineering

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Grouser design for rubber tracks used for traction

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Full-scale wind load measurements on a single-span film plastics clad livestock building

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Report on test of Zetor 7745 tractor with four-wheel drive Test in accordance with the OECD standard code for the official testing of agricultural tractors

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A three-parameter cubic equation of state for prediction of thermodynamic properties of fluids

A new cubic three-parameter equation of state has been proposed for PVT and VILE calculations of simple, high polar and associating fluids. The parameters are temperature dependent in sub-critical region, but temperature independent in super-critical region. The results for 42 simple and 14 associative pure compounds indicate that the calculated saturation properties and volumetric properties over the whole temperature range, up to high pressures, by the proposed equation of state (EOS), were in better agreement with the experimental data, compared with those obtained by the five well known EOSs (P-R, P-T, Adachi et al., Yu-Lu, and M4). Two derivative properties, molar enthalpy and heat capacity of water and ammonia have been calculated, and demonstrated the thermodynamic consistency of the EOS parameters. Also VLE calculations have been performed for 41 binary mixtures of different type of fluids, including those of interest in petroleum industry. The results indicated the high capability of the proposed EOS for calculating the thermodynamic properties of pure and fluid mixtures. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

The effects of sieving and centrifugation on the VFA levels in aerobically treated piggery slurry

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The effect of some operating parameters on rotavator loading and hull fatigue damage

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A review of the benefits and methods of oestrus detection

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Fully automatic milking of dairy cows An initial economic assessment

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