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October 23rd, 2007

It has taken a bit of time to bring this section life. We were by no means convinced of the best way to do it. And then, having decided to use the BIBTEX standard through CiteULike, the implementation was none too easy.

Pontydysgu staff are prolific writers and have been at it for some time. There are a lot of publications - most of them scattered across the web and our hard disks. So it is still going to take a bit of time to get this section anything like comprehensive. But we will try to ensure that at least the papers and documents that we get regular requests for are accessible here in the next week or two.

We were not quite sure how to divide the page up. In the end we have gone for books (including chapters in books), journal publications, conference papers and miscellaneous. Most of the headings seem to speak for themselves. Miscellaneous is a bit of a catch all term, it will include things like project reports and papers which never quite made it anywhere but might be of interest to someone, somewhere.

We will try to make sure everything can be downloaded. I try these days not to write for anyone who restricts access. Everything we publish is under a Creative Commons license. However no promise on file formats. Most will probably be PDFs.

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    Researching education and training: Notes on cultural approaches
    (2000)

    This paper examines the need for new tools for analysis and for an extended exploration of the functions of vocational education and training within society. Given the paucity of analytical tools available for interpreting comparative VET studies, it is proposed to develop or ‘borrow and adapt tools drawn from a wider range of sciences than in the past. In particular, it is necessary to generate analytical tools which consider not only the nature, aims and practice of VET research but also its values, its meanings and its relationship to VET practice. Such an analytical tool must also be sophisticated enough to take into account the context within which VET operates in the different societies of Europe. From this viewpoint it is suggested that tools and approaches drawn from cultural sciences, in particular Fregeian semantics, Marxism, semiotics, pragmatism,post-structuralism and super-structuralism may prove a fruitful area for VET research. The final section of this essay will provide some examples of these tools and suggest possible lines for further enquiry and analysis.
    Graham Attwell, Jenny Hughes
    A Project Manager’s Guide to Evaluation
    (2005)

    Evaluation is becoming an increasingly important activity in project manage- ment. The emphasis placed on evaluation by policy makers, funding bodies, strategists and practitioners is at an all time high. The cycle of innovating, piloting, evaluating and refining together with dissemination of the process and its outcomes is a widely accepted model of development. Yet many project managers are unclear about what evaluation actually means and, more im- portantly, how do they do it in practice.