Prof. Phil Hodkinson

Emeritus Professor of Lifelong Learning

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Tel: +44 (0)113 3433223
Fax: +44 (0)113 3433246

Room: ECS 7.53

Email: p.m.hodkinson@leeds.ac.uk

Professor of Lifelong Learning, research, doctoral supervision, masters degree teaching.

Member of Lifelong Learning Institute.

Interests

Research interests include transitions from education to work; career decision making and guidance; vocational education and training; cultural ways of understanding learning; qualitative/interpretative research methodologies.

Current and recent research projects:

  • Transforming Learning Cultures in FE
  • Career progression and employability of fulltime UK Masters degree students
  • Ongoing: Learning Lives, with Heather Hodkinson

Selected Publications

PAPERS

Hodkinson, P. (2008). "Scientific Research, Educational Policy and Educational Practice in the United Kingdom: the impact of the audit culture on further education". Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, 8 (3), 303 - 324.

Hodkinson, P., Ford, G., Hodkinson, H. and Hawthorn, R. (2008). "Retirement as a learning process". Educational Gerontology, 34, 167-184. (PDF File, 151K).

Hodkinson, P., Biesta, G. and James, D. (2008). "Understanding Learning Culturally: Overcoming the Dualism Between Social and Individual Views of Learning". Vocations and Learning, 1, 27-47. (PDF File, 257K).

Hodkinson, P., Biesta, G. and James, D. (2007). "Understanding Learning Cultures". Educational Review, 59 (4), 415-427. (PDF File, 156K).

Hodkinson, P. (2005). "Reconceptualising the relations between college-based and workplace learning". Journal of Workplace Learning, 17 (8), 521-532.

Hodkinson, H. & Hodkinson, P. (2005). "Improving Schoolteachers’ Workplace Learning". Research Papers in Education, 20 (2), 109-131.

Fuller, A., Hodkinson, H., Hodkinson, P. & Unwin, L. (2005). "Learning as Peripheral Participation in Communities of practice: a reassessment of key concepts in workplace learning". British Educational Research Journal, 31 (1), 49-68.

Hodkinson, P. (2005). "Learning as Cultural and Relational: Moving past some troubling dualisms". Cambridge Journal of Education, 35 (1), 107-119.

Bloomer, M., Hodkinson, P. & Billett, S. (2004). "The Significance of Ontogeny and Habitus in Constructing Theories of Learning". Studies in Continuing Education, 26 (1), 19-44.

Hodkinson, P., Hodkinson, H., Evans, K. & Kersh, N. with A Fuller, L, Unwin, P. Senker (2004). "The Significance of Individual Biography in Workplace Learning". Studies in the Education of Adults, 36 (1), 6 – 26.

Hodkinson, P. (2003). "Research as a form of work: expertise, community and methodological objectivity". British Educational Research Journal, 30 (1), 9-26.

BOOKS

Evans, K., Hodkinson, P., Rainbird, H. and Unwin, L. (2006). "Improving Workplace Learning". London: Routledge.

Extended list of publications.

This page last updated by Phil Hodkinson on 8th August 2008