James Avis

Best Publications

• Becoming a lecturer in further education in England: the construction of professional identity and the role of communities of practice

  Ann Marie Bathmaker;James Avis

  309
  Citations

• Re-thinking trust in a performative culture: the case of education

  James Avis

  230
  Citations

• Beyond performativity: reflections on activist professionalism and the labour process in further education

  James Avis

  196
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• Transformation or transformism: Engestrom's version of activity theory?

  James Avis

  168
  Citations

• Education, Policy and Social Justice: Learning and Skills

  James Avis

  153
  Citations

• Socio-technical imaginary of the fourth industrial revolution and its implications for vocational education and training: a literature review

  James Avis

  146
  Citations

• Engeström’s version of activity theory: a conservative praxis?

  James Avis

  129
  Citations

• Shifting identity: new conditions and the transformation of practice – teaching within post-compulsory education

  James Avis

  129
  Citations

• Communities of practice and the construction of learners in post-compulsory education and training

  James Avis;Ann Marie Bathmaker;John Parsons

  88
  Citations

• ‘How do I cope with that?’ The challenge of ‘schooling’ cultures in further education for trainee FE lecturers

  Ann Marie Bathmaker;James Avis

  83
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• Teaching In Lifelong Learning: A Guide To Theory And Practice

  James Avis;Roy Fisher;Ronald Thompson

  80
  Citations

• International studies in sociology of education

  Suzy Harris;Gill Crozier;Philip Wexler;Len E.N. Barton

  79
  Citations

• HE in FE: Vocationalism, Class and Social Justice

  James Avis;Kevin Orr

  75
  Citations

• Policing the Subject: Learning Outcomes, Managerialism and Research in PCET

  James Avis

  74
  Citations

• The politics of care: emotional labour and trainee further education lecturers[1]

  James Avis;Ann Marie Bathmaker

  73
  Citations

• Workplace learning, knowledge, practice and transformation

  James Avis

  68
  Citations

• Work‐based learning and social justice: ‘learning to labour’ and the new vocationalism in England

  James Avis

  66
  Citations

• Imaginary Friends: Managerialism, globalisation and post-compulsory education and training in England

  James Avis

  62
  Citations

• The strange fate of progressive education

  James Avis

  62
  Citations

• The enemy within : quality and managerialism in education

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  50
  Citations