Enjoyment and learning: policy and secondary school learners’ experience in England
Enjoyment and learning: policy and secondary school learners’ experience in England
Policy in England increasingly stresses the importance of enjoyment in education, both as a right in itself and as an essential support for learning. This paper draws on a large national dataset to focus on the perspective of young people aged 14-19 in England in 2007-2008. It considers alternative ways in which enjoyment and learning might be conceptualised. It analyses the evidence from young people to explore their experience of enjoyment at school or college, and their perception of its relationship to learning. It concludes that the form of enjoyment most strongly perceived as enmeshed with learning is the least commonly experienced, and that policy which refers to ‘enjoyment’ as a general and undefined term, fails to distinguish particular affective states which may or may not be supportive of learning.
Secondary schools, learning, 14-19 education, learning and enjoyment, pedagogy, adolescent social relations
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March 2011
Lumby, Jacky
(2011)
Enjoyment and learning: policy and secondary school learners’ experience in England.
British Educational Research Journal, 37 (2), .
(doi:10.1080/01411920903540680).
Abstract
Policy in England increasingly stresses the importance of enjoyment in education, both as a right in itself and as an essential support for learning. This paper draws on a large national dataset to focus on the perspective of young people aged 14-19 in England in 2007-2008. It considers alternative ways in which enjoyment and learning might be conceptualised. It analyses the evidence from young people to explore their experience of enjoyment at school or college, and their perception of its relationship to learning. It concludes that the form of enjoyment most strongly perceived as enmeshed with learning is the least commonly experienced, and that policy which refers to ‘enjoyment’ as a general and undefined term, fails to distinguish particular affective states which may or may not be supportive of learning.
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Submitted date: December 2009
Accepted/In Press date: December 2009
Published date: March 2011
Keywords:
Secondary schools, learning, 14-19 education, learning and enjoyment, pedagogy, adolescent social relations
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Leadership School Improve &Effectiveness
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Local EPrints ID: 71925
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/71925
ISSN: 0141-1926
PURE UUID: cbde6cef-1e89-469f-94fb-d4a3329fb0c9
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