Seeking Compassion in the Measured University: Generosity, Collegiality and Competition in Academic Practice
Journal Article
Caddell, M., & Wilder, K. (2018)
Seeking Compassion in the Measured University: Generosity, Collegiality and Competition in Academic Practice. Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice, 6(3), 14-23
In the context of league tables, national student surveys and increasing competition for students and resources, measurement and comparison is an ever-present – and ever more ...
Group guidance – is it time to flock together?
Journal Article
Meldrum, S. (2017)
Group guidance – is it time to flock together?. Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 38(1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.20856/jnicec.3806
This article calls for delivery models which encourage the collective career learning of groups to be brought to the centre stage of career guidance practice. It challenges th...
Identifying and measuring capabilities for career development in NEET young people
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2017)
Identifying and measuring capabilities for career development in NEET young people. Recherches sociologique et anthropologique/ Sociological and anthropological research, 47(2), 83-99
Amartya Sen's Capability Approach offers great potential as a conceptual framework for promoting social justice and well-being through economic and educational engagement. Yet...
Positive psychology: A movement to reintegrate career counselling within counselling psychology
Journal Article
Robertson, P. (2015)
Positive psychology: A movement to reintegrate career counselling within counselling psychology. Counselling psychology review / the British Psychological Society, 30(3), 26-35
Content & Focus: In the UK career counselling has tended to evolve separately from the counselling psychology profession. Elsewhere, notably in North America, counselling psyc...
Towards a capability approach to careers: Applying Amartya Sen's thinking
Journal Article
Robertson, P. J. (2015)
Towards a capability approach to careers: Applying Amartya Sen's thinking. International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 15(1), 75-88. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-014-9280-4
Amartya Sen’s capability approach characterizes an individual’s well-being in terms of what they are able to be, and what they are able to do. This framework for thinking has ...
Blurring boundaries: towards a reconceptualisation of the private sector in education.
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Caddell, M., & Ashley, L. D. (2006)
Blurring boundaries: towards a reconceptualisation of the private sector in education. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 36(4), 411-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057920601024750
This Special Issue of Compare stems from papers presented to the eighth United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training (UKFIET) Oxford International Conference ...
Private schools as battlefields: contested visions of learning and livelihood in Nepal.
Journal Article
Caddell, M. (2006)
Private schools as battlefields: contested visions of learning and livelihood in Nepal. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 36(4), 463-479. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057920601024909
Current policy and programme considerations of the role of the private sector in the promotion of schooling reform and the achievement of Education For All encompass a somewha...
Knowing but not knowing: conflict, development and denial.
Journal Article
Caddell, M., & Yanacopulos, H. (2006)
Knowing but not knowing: conflict, development and denial. Conflict, Security and Development, 6(4), 557-579. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678800601066561
Drawing on case study material from Uganda and Nepal, this paper highlights the tension between what is ‘known’ and what is ‘done’ by practitioners working in the arena of con...
Listening to local voices? International targets and decentralised education planning in Nepal.
Journal Article
Caddell, M. (2005)
Listening to local voices? International targets and decentralised education planning in Nepal. International Journal of Educational Development, 25(4), 456-469. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedudev.2005.04.010
This article draws on a case study of district educational planning in Nepal to explore how education for all priorities and targets impact on educational practice at the sub-...