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    Selected key publications

    Brown, A. & Bimrose, J. (2011) Changing patterns of guidance, learning and careers of older workers in Europe. In CEDEFOP (ed) Working and ageing: Guidance and counselling for mature learners, Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.

    Brown, A. (2011) Lessons from Policy Failure: The Demise of a National Qualifications Framework Based Solely on Learning Outcomes in England, Journal of Contemporary Educational Studies, Volume 62, Issue5, pp 36-55.

    Brown, A. (2011): Problems with National Qualifications Frameworks in practice: The English case. In: Austrian Open Access Journal of Adult Education. Issue 14, article 04, 1 -12. Vienna.

    Bimrose, J., Brown, A., Barnes, S-A. and Hughes, D.(2011) The role of career adaptability in skills supply, Evidence report 35. Main Report. Wath-upon-Dearne: UKCES.

    Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A., Brown, A. and Hughes, D.(2011) The role of career adaptability in skills supply, Evidence Report 35. Technical Report. Wath-upon-Dearne: UKCES.

    Brown, A. & Bimrose, J. (2011) Developmental tasks,vocational development and career adaptability. In Z. Zhao, F. Rauner and U. Hauschildt (eds) Assuring the acquisition of expertise: apprenticeship in the modern economy, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press. [ISBN: 978-7-5135-0815-5], pp 255-258.

    Kaschig, A., Maier, R., Sandow, A., Lazoi, M., Barnes, S., Bimrose, J., Bradley, C., Brown, A., Kunzmann, C.; Mazarakis, A.; Schmidt, A. (2010). Knowledge Maturing Activities and Practices Fostering Organisational Learning: Results of an Empirical Study. In: Wolpers, M., Kirschner, P., Scheffel, M., Lindstaedt, S., Dimitrova, V., eds. Sustaining TEL: From Innovation to Learning and Practice. 5th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2010, Barcelona, Spain, September 28th - October 1st, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin - Heidelberg - New York: Springer (= Lecture Notes in Computer Science), ISBN 978-3-642-16019-6, pp. 151 - 166.

    Brown, A., Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A, Kirpal, S., Grønning, T. & Dæhlen M. (2010) Changing patterns of working, learning and career development across Europe, Coventry: IER, University of Warwick.

    Brown, A. (2010). 'Assessment in the Workplace of Performance, Developing Expertise and Competence.' In: P. Peterson, E. Baker and B. McGaw (eds) International Encyclopedia of Education, vol. 3, pp. 330-336, Oxford: Elsevier. [ISBN: 978-0-08-044893-0].

    Bimrose, J. & Brown, A. (2010). 'Older workers’ transitions in work-related learning, careers and identities.' In K. Ecclestone, G. Biesta & M. Hughes (eds) Transitions and Learning Through the Lifecourse,Routledge: Abingdon. [ISBN: 978-0-415-48174-8]

    Brown, A. (2010). 'Fresh directions for teaching and learning in Further Education.' In Tony Dolphin and Jonathan Clifton (eds) Colleges 2020, London: IPPR [ISBN: 9781860303326].

    Brown, A. (2009). Higher skills development at work: A Commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme London: ESRC,TLRP. [ISBN: 978-0-85473-893-9].

    Brown, A. (2009). 'Role of Technology in Enhancing Learning'. In U. Bernath, A. Szücs, A. Tait and M. Vidal (eds) Distance Education and e-Learning in Transition: Learning innovation, technology and social challenges. London: Wiley. [ISBN: 9781848211322], pp 373-384.

    Nieuwenhuis, L. & Brown, A. (2009) 'In Search for Flexible Expertise as a Source for Firm Viability.' In F. Oser, U. Renold, E. John, E. Winther and S. Weber (Eds.) VET boost: towards a theory of professional competencies - Essays in Honor of Frank Achtenhagen. Dordrecht: Sense Publishers. [ISBN 978-90-8790-736-5], pp 409 - 422.

    Brown, A., Bimrose, J. & Barnes, S-A., (2009). 'Collaborative work-related learning and technology-enhanced learning'. In R. Maclean and D. Wilson (eds) International Handbook of Education for the changing world of work, volume 4. Dordrecht: Springer. [ISBN: 978-1-4020-5280-4], pp 1687-1698.

    Brown, A. (2009). Developing expertise - moving beyond a focus on workplace competence, assessment and qualifications - Beyond Current Horizons report. London: DCSF/Futurelab.

    Attwell, G., Bimrose, J., Brown, A., & Barnes, S-A. (2008) 'Mature Learning: Mash up Personal Learning Environments', Mashup Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE08) (Volume 388), 78 - 86, [Electronic / Internet Publication].

    Nash, I., Jones, S., Ecclestone K. and Brown A. (Eds.) (2008). Challenge and change in Further education: A Commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme. London: ESRC,TLRP. [ISBN: 978-0-85473-824-3].

    Brown, A. (2008). Limitations of levels, learning outcomes and qualifications as drivers towards a more knowledge-based society?, US-China Education Review, 5, 1, 9-17.

    Bimrose, J., Brown, A., & Barnes, S-A. (2008). Researching careers, learning and identities: Career attachments as anchors or chains?, Perspectives in Education, 26, 3, pp. 71-81. [ISSN 0258-2236]

    Hogarth, T., de Hoyos, M., Gambin, L., Wilson, R.A. and Brown, A. (2008) Initial Vocational Education and Training (IVET) in Europe: Review, Thessaloniki: Cedefop, pp. 1-49.

    Hoyles, C., Poulovassilis, A., Magoulas, G., Noss, R., Kent, P., Brown, A., Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A., de Hoyos, M. and Marris, L. (2007). Workplace personalised learning environments for the development of employees' technical communicative skills: Full Research Report. ESRC End of Award Report, RES-139-25-0312. Swindon: ESRC

    Brown, A., Kirpal, S. and Rauner, F. (Eds.) (2007). Identities at Work, Technical and Vocational Education and Training Series: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, Vol. 5, Dordrecht: Springer. [ISBN: 978-1-4020-4988-0.]

    Bimrose, J., Barnes, S-A., Brown, A, Hasluck, C. & Behle, H. (2007). Skills diagnostics and screening tools: A literature review. Department for Work and Pensions, Research Report 459. [ISBN 978 1 84712 276 6].

    Brown, A. and Pollard, A. (Eds.) (2006). 14-19 Education and Training: A Commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme. London: ESRC,TLRP.

    Hughes, D., Bimrose, J. & Brown, A. (2006). Putting research at the centre of the design, development and operation of higher education careers services: A comparative study from the UK and Finland, in R. Vuorinen & S. Saukkonen Guidance Services in Higher Education: Strategies, Design & Implementation, Institute for Educational Research, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. [ISBN 951-39-2675-3]

    Brown, A., Bimrose, J. and Hughes, D. (2005). Bringing Guidance Research and Practice Closer Together: The UK National Guidance Research Forum Website, International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 5, 2, 229 – 240.

    Keep, E. and Brown, A. (2005). Moving beyond discussions about paradigm shifts – creating space for multiple meanings and narratives on changing patterns of employment and careers, Career Research and Development, 13, 11-19.

    Brown, A. (Ed) (2005). Learning while working in small companies: comparative analysis of experiences drawn from England, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, SKOPE Monograph No 7., ESRC funded Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, Oxford and Warwick Universities.

    Brown, A., Grollmann, P., Tutschner, R. & PARTICIPA Project Consortium (2005). Participation in Continuing Vocational Education and Training: Results from the case studies and qualitative investigations, ITB Working Paper Nr. 54, Institut Technik und Bildung Universität Bremen.

    Brown, A. (2004). Educational Research: what strategies for development in the European Research Area, European Educational Research Journal, 3, 4, 790-794.

    Brown, A. (2004). Professionals under pressure: contextual influences on learning and development of radiographers in England, Learning in Health and Social Care, 3, 4, 213-222.

    Brown, A. (2004). Engineering identities, Career Development International, 9, 3, 245 - 273.

    Brown, A. and Kirpal, S. (2004). 'Old nurses with new qualifications are best': Competing ideas about the skills that matter in nursing in Estonia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. In Warhurst, C., Grugulis, I., and Keep, E. The skills that matter, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan (pp 225 -241). [Note the above chapter was drawn from a broader project paper 'Old Nurses with New Qualifications are Best': Managers’ Attitudes towards Recruitment for Occupations in Health Care in Estonia, France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom: by A. Brown, M. Dif, S. Koniordos, G. Laske, K. Loogma, F. Marhuenda, A. Navas, O. Stryjecka-llina & R. Vilu which is downloadable from the FAME project website.]

    Brown, A., Rhodes, E. and Carter, R. (2004). Supporting learning in advanced supply systems in the automotive and aerospace industries. In H. Rainbird, A. Fuller and A. Munro (Eds.) Workplace Learning in Context. London: Routledge (pp 166 - 182).

    Brown, A. (2004). United Kingdom. In Brown, A. (Ed.) and Participa project consortium, Participation in Continuing Vocational and Training (VET): a need for a sustainable employability. A state of the art report for six European countries, Bremen: University of Bremen ITB Working Paper 38 (pp 79 -103).

    Keep, E. and Brown, A. (2004). Paradoxes, pitfalls and the prospects for a dynamic VET system. In W. Nijhof and W. van Esch (Eds.) Unravelling policy, power, process and performance: the formative evaluation of the Dutch Adult and Vocational education Act. 's-Hertogenbosch: CINOP (pp 255 - 265).

    Brown, A. and Keep, E. (2003). Competing perspectives on workplace learning and the learning organisation, in B. Nyhan, P. Cressey, M. Tomassini, M. Kelleher and R. Poell (eds) Facing up to the learning organisation challenge: Volume 2 Key issues from a European perspective, Thessaloniki: CEDEFOP (pp 73 -91).

    Brown, A. and Laske, G. (2003). Employers views on graduate career paths in Germany and the United Kingdom. In FAME project consortium, How personnel management and human resources policies shape workers’ identities, Bremen: University of Bremen ITB Working Paper 46 (pp 5 - 19).

    Drexel, I., Möbus, M., Gérardin, F. Grasser B., Lhotel, H., Brown, A., Maguire, M. and Baldauf, B. (2003). Cross-national Comparisons of New Career Pathways for Industrial Supervisors in France, Germany and the United Kingdom, SKOPE Monograph No 6., ESRC funded Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance, Oxford and Warwick Universities.

    Onstenk, J. and Brown, A. (2002). A Dutch approach to promoting key qualifications: reflections on 'core problems as a support for curriculum development, in P. Kämäräinen, G. Attwell and A. Brown (eds), Key qualifications: from theory to practice - transformation of learning within vocational education and training, Thessaloniki: CEDEFOP (pp 87 -104).

    Brown, A. (2002). Challenges of supporting learning of newly qualified professionals in health care. In Nijhof, Wim J.; Heikkinen, Anja; Nieuwenhuis, Loek (eds.) Shaping flexibility in vocational education and training. Dordrecht/Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

    Brown, A., G. Attwell and J. Bimrose (2002). Utilising information and communication technologies for knowledge development for dispersed communities of practice, in V. Lally and D. McConnell (eds.) Networked collaborative learning and information and communication technologies in Higher Education, Sheffield: Department of Educational Studies. pp 47-60.

    Bjørnåvold, J. and Brown, A. (2002). Rethinking the role of the assessment of non-formal learning, in P. Kämäräinen, G. Attwell and A. Brown (eds), Key qualifications: from theory to practice - transformation of learning within vocational education and training, Thessaloniki: CEDEFOP.

    Brown, A. (2001). 'Reflections on the processes of becoming skilled in England, Germany and the Netherlands'. In G. Laske (ed) Vocational identity, flexibility and mobility in the European labour Market. Ed.. ITB Working Paper 27. Bremen: ITB, University of Bremen, 165-196.

    Brown, A. (2001). 'Paradise Lost and Paradise Postponed: Vocational Education and Training Policy in Germany and England'. Work, Employment and Society, 15, 2, 403-9 (extended review article).

    Brown, A., Green, A., Pitcher, J. and Simm, C. (2000). Employers skill survey: case study - health and social care, National Skills Task Force Research Report 35, Nottingham: DfEE, 79pp.

    Brown, A. and Keep, E. (2000). Review of vocational education and training research in the United Kingdom, Luxembourg: European Commission, 170pp.

    Brown, A. (2000). Social influences on individual commitment to self-directed learning at work. In G. Straka (Ed) Conceptions of self-directed learning, Muenster: Waxmann.

    Brown, A. and Bimrose, J. (2000). Establishing a virtual forum for collaboration and knowledge transformation to support careers guidance practice, in ICG (Ed) Careers Guidance: constructing the future - a global perspective, Stourbridge: ICG (pp 73-85).

    Brown, A. (1999). Going Dutch? Changing the focus from core skills to core problems in vocational higher education, in E. Dunne (Ed) The learning society: international perspectives on core skills in higher education, London: Kogan Page (pp 75-84).

    Brown, A. (1999). A comparative study of additional qualifications at the interface of initial and continuing education: findings from the United Kingdom. SKOPE Research Papers No. 4. Oxford/Coventry: University of Oxford /University of Warwick/ESRC, 30pp.

    Brown, A. (1999). Career Pathways for Industrial Supervisors in the United Kingdom. SKOPE Research Papers No. 3. Oxford/Coventry: University of Oxford /University of Warwick/ESRC, 28pp.

    Brown, A., Moerkamp, T. and Voncken, E. (1999). Facilitating progression to higher education from vocational paths. European Journal of Education. 34, no.2, 219-235.

    Attwell, G. and Brown, A. (1999). Cross-cutting themes in the education of vocational education and training professionals in Europe. In F. van Wieringen and G. Attwell (eds) Vocational and adult education in Europe, Dordrecht: Kluwer (pp 161-174).

    Brown, A. (1998). Possible role for synoptic assessment, in A. Brown and S. Manning (eds) (1998) Qualifications for employment and higher education: a collaborative investigation across Europe, Hämeenlinna: University of Tampere, (pp 65-76).

    Brown, A. (1998). Designing effective learning programmes for the development of a broad occupational competence. In W. Nijhof and J. Streumer (eds) Key qualifications in work and education, Dordrecht: Kluwer Press.

    Brown, A. (1997). A dynamic model of occupational identity formation, in A. Brown (Ed) Promoting Vocational Education and training: European perspectives, Tampere, Univeristy of Tampere, (pp 59-67). (Out of print: above link is to a pre-print version available from the British Education Index as a Symposium paper presented at the Journal of Vocational Education and Training Second International Conference "Policy and Practice in Vocational Education and Training", University of Huddersfield, 16-18 July 1997).

    Brown, A. (1997). Facilitating learning: helping others learn within companies, in A. Brown (Ed) Promoting Vocational Education and training: European perspectives, Tampere, University of Tampere, (pp 81-89).

    Brown, A., Griffey, S. and Hughes, J. (1997). Supporting learning in initial vocational education, in A. Brown (Ed) Promoting Vocational Education and training: European perspectives, University of Tampere, Tampere, (pp 91-105).

    Brown, A. (1997). The development of key skills across contexts and over time, Capability, 3, 2, 16-20.

    Brown, A. and Behrens, M. (1996). Starting underemployed careers, In M. de Goode, P. de Klaver, J. van Ophem, C. Verhaar and A. de Vries (eds) Youth: unemployment, identity and policy, Aldershot: Avebury, 31-47.

    Brown, A. and Behrens, M. (1995). How young people are marginalised in English and German labour markets, in P. Cressey and B. Jones (eds) Work and employment in Europe: a new convergence, London: Routledge, 190-210.

    Brown, A. (1995). Evaluation of teaching and learning processes in a computer-supported mechanical engineering course, Computers and Education, 25, 1, 59-65

    Brown, A. and Behrens, M. (1994). Comparative analysis of flexibility in vocational education and training: engineering and insurance in England and Germany. In W. Nijhof and J. Streumer (eds) Flexibility in training and vocational education, Utrecht: Lemma Press. (pp 171-183).

    Brown, A. (1994). Processes to support the use of information technology to enhance learning, Computers and Education, 22, 1-2, 145-153.

    Brown, A. and Evans, K. (1994). Changing the training culture: lessons from Anglo-German comparisons of vocational education and training, British Journal of Education and Work, 7, 2, 5-15.

    Brown, A., Evans, K., Blackman, S. and Germon, S. (1994). Key workers: technical and training mastery in the workplace, Poole: Hyde Publications. (pp 160)

    Brown A. and Roberts K. (1994). Individuals in Context: Stability and change, In K. Evans and W. Heinz (eds) Becoming Adults in England and Germany, London: Anglo-German Foundation. (pp 17-42).

    Brown, A. and Behrens, M. (1994). Steps towards adulthood, In K. Evans and W. Heinz (eds) Becoming Adults in England and Germany, London: Anglo-German Foundation. (pp 73-111).

    Brown, A. and Behrens, M. (1994). Finding jobs: institutional support and individual strategies, In K. Evans and W. Heinz (eds) Becoming Adults in England and Germany, London: Anglo-German Foundation. (pp 173-207).

    Behrens M. and Brown A. (1991). Entering the world of work (pp 61-70), The academic route (pp 72-88), Routes to skilled work (pp 89-112), Uncertain routes, diverse destinations (pp 113-136), Routes to nowhere? (pp 137-162), In J Bynner and K Roberts (eds) Youth and work transitions to employment in England and Germany, London: Anglo-German Foundation.

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