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SCOTTISH ARCHIVES 2016 Volume 22, 2016
Fiona Frank’s PhD was an oral history study looking at the transmission of Scottish Jewish identi... more Fiona Frank’s PhD was an oral history study looking at the transmission of Scottish Jewish identity through five generations of a Scottish Jewish family. As Ronald Grele writes, oral testimonies are only one part of finding out about the past: ‘where written sources are available, they should be used as background as well as corroboration’.1
This paper examines the various archival sources which provided background and context for the research. Focusing on the archival material allows an understanding of how the material itself contributed further to the understanding of the lives of the family members. A dogged interest in examining data from many sources, plus some unexpected synchronicity, led to some surprising material and some unexpected directions in the research.
Responses from more than 400 British adults who withdrew from part-time vocational and nonvocatio... more Responses from more than 400 British adults who withdrew from part-time vocational and nonvocational further education courses revealed that withdrawal was due to a combination of reasons, more than 60% unrelated to the course or college. College-based reasons included the tutor or teaching methods. Students insisted that they not be labeled "dropouts." (SK)
RAPAL - research and practice in adult literacy, 2004
'We are the governer's dogs'. Student's voices and policy making - developing a new framework fo... more 'We are the governer's dogs'. Student's voices and policy making - developing a new framework for literacy practitioners in empowering learners to engage with workplace change.
Book chapters by Fiona Frank
Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry, 2018
In Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry, by Kenneth Collins, Chief Editor, with Bernard Wasserstei... more In Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry, by Kenneth Collins, Chief Editor, with Bernard Wasserstein and Aubrey Newman
Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism., 2016
Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In... more Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In An Extended Scottish Jewish Family. Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism. Routledge. 2016: 162-176. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-uk341
This essay celebrates the life and art of Glasgow artist Hannah Frank whose Jewish journey took h... more This essay celebrates the life and art of Glasgow artist Hannah Frank whose Jewish journey took her from the traditional Gorbals tenement where she was born in 1908 to the Newton Mearns Jewish care home where she died in December 2008. This short physical journey formed only pan of what was a substantially larger intellectual and cultural journey which took Frank through the canon of English and European literature, poetry and art, theatre and cinema. This essay uses Rank's diaries from 1924 and 1925 to explore this larger journey, using examples to show how her reading would influence her art throughout her life.
Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism, 2016
Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In... more Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In An Extended Scottish Jewish Family. In Diemling, Maria and Ray, Larry. Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism. Routledge. 2016: 162-176. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-uk341
Innovations in Lifelong Learning : Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Participation and Vocational Learning
Books by Fiona Frank
Candles, Conversions and Class: Five Generations of a Scottish Jewish Family, 2019
Rabbi Zvi David and Sophia Hoppenstein arrived in Edinburgh in the 1880s, and had nine children. ... more Rabbi Zvi David and Sophia Hoppenstein arrived in Edinburgh in the 1880s, and had nine children. Fiona Frank tracked down and interviewed their descendents throughout Scotland, England and as far as Cape Town, as part of her PhD research at the Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde.
“This book is an important addition to the increasing literature on the history of the Jews in Scotland. Through the five generations studied every aspect of the Jewish experience in Scotland, integration and assimilation, Scottish and Jewish cultural identities, religious practice and secularisation, comes to vivid life." - Kenneth Collins, Chair of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
International Journal of Educational Development, 2000
ED424373 - Literacy and the New Work Order. An International Literature Review.
Designed to familiarize experienced and qualified basic skills tutors and coordinators with issue... more Designed to familiarize experienced and qualified basic skills tutors and coordinators with issues of teaching basic skills in the workplace in Great Britain, this course can be delivered by experienced workplace basic skills training program coordinators. It can be delivered over three days or as six half-day sessions. Each of the four units consists of a list of objectives, informational material, and exercises with suggestions for use. Unit 1, General Concepts of Workplace Basic Skills Training and Company Culture, addresses program name; adult basic education in the workplace context; differences between community- and workplace-based student groups; benefits and barriers to training; workplace reform; company culture; and cultural models. Unit 2, Making It Happen, covers training needs analysis, negotiating with a company, definitions of basic skills, steering group, and confidentiality. Unit 3, Setting It Up, concerns publicity, program outline, and delivery options. Unit 4, D...
In April 1992, 16 individuals who were all employed in manual or nonsupervisory jobs and who had ... more In April 1992, 16 individuals who were all employed in manual or nonsupervisory jobs and who had all participated in employer-funded adult education courses offered partly or entirely during work hours attended a weekend retreat in the north of England. They spent the weekend talking and writing about their experiences with work-based learning, its effect on their lives, and the broader benefits of work-based education programs. This book presents the collected writings of the weekend program's participants. The writings are in various formats, including reports, essays, and poems. In the introductory section, two participants describe their involvement in workplace learning and its significance in their lives. The writings in chapters 1 and 2 describe typical workdays in the lives of service occupation and factory workers, and the poems and essays in chapter 3 focus on the participants' reasons for taking work-based adult education courses and the personal and career benefi...
Thesis by Fiona Frank
Thesis, 2012
This thesis casts new light on the immigrant experience, focusing on one extended Scottish Jewish... more This thesis casts new light on the immigrant experience, focusing on one extended Scottish Jewish family, the descendents of Rabbi Zvi David Hoppenstein and his wife Sophia, who arrived in Scotland in the early 1880s. Going further than other studies by exploring connections and difference through five generations and across five branches of the family, it uses grounded theory and a feminist perspective and draws on secondary sources like census data and contemporary newspaper reports with the early immigrant generations, oral testimony with the third and fourth generations and an innovative use of social networking platforms to engage with the younger generation. It explores Bourdieu’s theories relating to cultural and economic capital and the main themes are examined through the triple lens of generational change, gender and class. The thesis draws out links between food and memory and examines outmarriage and ‘return inmarriage’. It explores the fact that antisemitic and negative reactions from the host community, changing in nature through the generations but always present, have had an effect on people’s sense of their Jewish identity just as much as has the transmission of Jewish identity at home, in the synagogue, in Hebrew classes and in Jewish political, educational, leisure and welfare organisations. It makes an important link between gendered educational opportunities and consequent gendered intergenerational class shift, challenges other studies which view Jewish identity as static and illustrates how the boundary between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ is blurred: the Hoppenstein family offers us a context where we can see clearly how insider and outsider status can be self-assigned, ascribed by others, or mediated by internal gatekeepers.
Book reviews by Fiona Frank
Oral History Review, 2011
Oral History Review, 2013
Papers by Fiona Frank
British Journal of Education & Work, 2000
The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, 2019
SCOTTISH ARCHIVES 2016 Volume 22, 2016
Fiona Frank’s PhD was an oral history study looking at the transmission of Scottish Jewish identi... more Fiona Frank’s PhD was an oral history study looking at the transmission of Scottish Jewish identity through five generations of a Scottish Jewish family. As Ronald Grele writes, oral testimonies are only one part of finding out about the past: ‘where written sources are available, they should be used as background as well as corroboration’.1
This paper examines the various archival sources which provided background and context for the research. Focusing on the archival material allows an understanding of how the material itself contributed further to the understanding of the lives of the family members. A dogged interest in examining data from many sources, plus some unexpected synchronicity, led to some surprising material and some unexpected directions in the research.
Responses from more than 400 British adults who withdrew from part-time vocational and nonvocatio... more Responses from more than 400 British adults who withdrew from part-time vocational and nonvocational further education courses revealed that withdrawal was due to a combination of reasons, more than 60% unrelated to the course or college. College-based reasons included the tutor or teaching methods. Students insisted that they not be labeled "dropouts." (SK)
RAPAL - research and practice in adult literacy, 2004
'We are the governer's dogs'. Student's voices and policy making - developing a new framework fo... more 'We are the governer's dogs'. Student's voices and policy making - developing a new framework for literacy practitioners in empowering learners to engage with workplace change.
Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry, 2018
In Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry, by Kenneth Collins, Chief Editor, with Bernard Wasserstei... more In Two Hundred Years of Scottish Jewry, by Kenneth Collins, Chief Editor, with Bernard Wasserstein and Aubrey Newman
Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism., 2016
Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In... more Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In An Extended Scottish Jewish Family. Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism. Routledge. 2016: 162-176. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-uk341
This essay celebrates the life and art of Glasgow artist Hannah Frank whose Jewish journey took h... more This essay celebrates the life and art of Glasgow artist Hannah Frank whose Jewish journey took her from the traditional Gorbals tenement where she was born in 1908 to the Newton Mearns Jewish care home where she died in December 2008. This short physical journey formed only pan of what was a substantially larger intellectual and cultural journey which took Frank through the canon of English and European literature, poetry and art, theatre and cinema. This essay uses Rank's diaries from 1924 and 1925 to explore this larger journey, using examples to show how her reading would influence her art throughout her life.
Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism, 2016
Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In... more Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In An Extended Scottish Jewish Family. In Diemling, Maria and Ray, Larry. Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism. Routledge. 2016: 162-176. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-uk341
Innovations in Lifelong Learning : Critical Perspectives on Diversity, Participation and Vocational Learning
Candles, Conversions and Class: Five Generations of a Scottish Jewish Family, 2019
Rabbi Zvi David and Sophia Hoppenstein arrived in Edinburgh in the 1880s, and had nine children. ... more Rabbi Zvi David and Sophia Hoppenstein arrived in Edinburgh in the 1880s, and had nine children. Fiona Frank tracked down and interviewed their descendents throughout Scotland, England and as far as Cape Town, as part of her PhD research at the Scottish Oral History Centre, University of Strathclyde.
“This book is an important addition to the increasing literature on the history of the Jews in Scotland. Through the five generations studied every aspect of the Jewish experience in Scotland, integration and assimilation, Scottish and Jewish cultural identities, religious practice and secularisation, comes to vivid life." - Kenneth Collins, Chair of the Scottish Jewish Archives Centre
International Journal of Educational Development, 2000
ED424373 - Literacy and the New Work Order. An International Literature Review.
Designed to familiarize experienced and qualified basic skills tutors and coordinators with issue... more Designed to familiarize experienced and qualified basic skills tutors and coordinators with issues of teaching basic skills in the workplace in Great Britain, this course can be delivered by experienced workplace basic skills training program coordinators. It can be delivered over three days or as six half-day sessions. Each of the four units consists of a list of objectives, informational material, and exercises with suggestions for use. Unit 1, General Concepts of Workplace Basic Skills Training and Company Culture, addresses program name; adult basic education in the workplace context; differences between community- and workplace-based student groups; benefits and barriers to training; workplace reform; company culture; and cultural models. Unit 2, Making It Happen, covers training needs analysis, negotiating with a company, definitions of basic skills, steering group, and confidentiality. Unit 3, Setting It Up, concerns publicity, program outline, and delivery options. Unit 4, D...
In April 1992, 16 individuals who were all employed in manual or nonsupervisory jobs and who had ... more In April 1992, 16 individuals who were all employed in manual or nonsupervisory jobs and who had all participated in employer-funded adult education courses offered partly or entirely during work hours attended a weekend retreat in the north of England. They spent the weekend talking and writing about their experiences with work-based learning, its effect on their lives, and the broader benefits of work-based education programs. This book presents the collected writings of the weekend program's participants. The writings are in various formats, including reports, essays, and poems. In the introductory section, two participants describe their involvement in workplace learning and its significance in their lives. The writings in chapters 1 and 2 describe typical workdays in the lives of service occupation and factory workers, and the poems and essays in chapter 3 focus on the participants' reasons for taking work-based adult education courses and the personal and career benefi...
Thesis, 2012
This thesis casts new light on the immigrant experience, focusing on one extended Scottish Jewish... more This thesis casts new light on the immigrant experience, focusing on one extended Scottish Jewish family, the descendents of Rabbi Zvi David Hoppenstein and his wife Sophia, who arrived in Scotland in the early 1880s. Going further than other studies by exploring connections and difference through five generations and across five branches of the family, it uses grounded theory and a feminist perspective and draws on secondary sources like census data and contemporary newspaper reports with the early immigrant generations, oral testimony with the third and fourth generations and an innovative use of social networking platforms to engage with the younger generation. It explores Bourdieu’s theories relating to cultural and economic capital and the main themes are examined through the triple lens of generational change, gender and class. The thesis draws out links between food and memory and examines outmarriage and ‘return inmarriage’. It explores the fact that antisemitic and negative reactions from the host community, changing in nature through the generations but always present, have had an effect on people’s sense of their Jewish identity just as much as has the transmission of Jewish identity at home, in the synagogue, in Hebrew classes and in Jewish political, educational, leisure and welfare organisations. It makes an important link between gendered educational opportunities and consequent gendered intergenerational class shift, challenges other studies which view Jewish identity as static and illustrates how the boundary between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ is blurred: the Hoppenstein family offers us a context where we can see clearly how insider and outsider status can be self-assigned, ascribed by others, or mediated by internal gatekeepers.
Oral History Review, 2011
Oral History Review, 2013
British Journal of Education & Work, 2000
The Scottish Jewish Archives Centre, 2019
Frank, Fiona; Hamilton, Mary "Not just a Number." The Role of Basic Skills Programmes in the Chan... more Frank, Fiona; Hamilton, Mary "Not just a Number." The Role of Basic Skills Programmes in the Changing Workplace. An Account of a Leverhulme Trust Funded Research Project. Lancaster Univ. (England). Leverhulme Trust. London (England). Jun 93 207p.; A product of the Centre for the Study of Education and Training. For a related document, see CE 065 912. CSET, the Center for the Study of Education and Training,
Changes in work organisation, changes in government, changes in national boundaries, changes in f... more Changes in work organisation, changes in government, changes in national boundaries, changes in further education funding and management, and new policy recommendations are all impacting on the planning and delivery of basic skills in the UK workplace. This paper looks at the ...
Adults Learning, 1997
EJ546850 - When Life Gets in the Way.
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE11 7GE, Unit... more National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE11 7GE, United Kingdom. Web site: http://www.niace.org.uk. ... For the first edition, see ED 447 318. The second edition was revised by Chris Holland and Jaine Chisholm Caunt with additional ...
Following the unprecedented number of antisemitic incidents in the summer of 20141, the Scottish ... more Following the unprecedented number of antisemitic incidents in the summer of 20141, the Scottish Government funded the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC) to carry out a small-scale inquiry into ‘What’s changed about being Jewish in Scotland’ since our 2012 inquiry into the experience of ‘Being Jewish in Scotland’. Our principal findings were: - 38 respondents to our survey (32%) explicitly talked about a heightened level of anxiety, discomfort, or vulnerability, despite not having been directly asked. - 20 respondents (17%) – many more than in 2012 – told us that they now keep their Jewish identity secret. - As a result there is less opportunity for Jewish people to develop resilient and supportive networks and communities. - 76% of respondents said that events in the Middle East have a significant impact on the way they are treated as Jews in Scotland. - 80% of respondents said that the events in the Middle East during summer 2014 had negatively affected their experien...
ED424373 - Literacy and the New Work Order. An International Literature Review.
Being Jewish in Scotland was a small-scale inquiry carried out by the Scottish Council of Jewish ... more Being Jewish in Scotland was a small-scale inquiry carried out by the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC), with funding from the Scottish Government, to find out more about the variety of experience of Jewish people in Scotland, and encourage them to identify the issues that are important to them. It has helped SCoJeC to build a better understanding of what affects the sense of security of Jewish individuals and communities, and thus to establish what matters to the community, and improve our support for Jewish people in Scotland. The process of carrying out the inquiry has itself had the result of strengthening networks and social capital in the community, and has helped to provide support to Jewish people throughout Scotland. It is intended that the findings should also prove useful in assisting statutory and voluntary organisations and agencies such as the Scottish Government, the NHS, local authorities, education authorities, employers, faith groups, and others to su...
This short term study into people’s experiences of being Jewish in Scotland has been carried out ... more This short term study into people’s experiences of being Jewish in Scotland has been carried out by the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities (SCoJeC) and funded by the Community Safety Unit of the Scottish Government. The inquiry was a direct response to the large increase in the number of antisemitic incidents in Scotland in the third quarter of 2014. This increase came as an unwelcome shock, not only to the Jewish Community, but to civil society at large. The terrorist incidents in Paris and in Copenhagen that deliberately targeted Jewish people occurred during the course of the inquiry, and these also affected people’s feelings about being Jewish in Scotland. This new study has enabled us to go back to many of the people who contributed to our 2012 Being Jewish in Scotland inquiry to ask whether, and if so, how and why, their experiences and opinions have changed. It has also reached a significant number of additional participants around Scotland. We have gathered data through ...
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE11 7GE, Unit... more National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE11 7GE, United Kingdom, Web site: http://www.niace.org.uk (80 British pounds). ... Edited by Fiona Frank and Chris Holland. Financial support provided by NIACE, Oxfordshire County Council ...
Frank, Fiona and Rodrigues, Elenita (2003) 'We are the governer's dogs'. Student&#... more Frank, Fiona and Rodrigues, Elenita (2003) 'We are the governer's dogs'. Student's voices and policy making - developing a new framework for literacy practitioners in empowering learners to engage with workplace change. Research and Practice in Adult Literacy (51). pp. 2-13.
Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": F... more Frank, Fiona "I Always Felt On The Edge Of Things And Not Really Part Of It": Fuzzy Boundaries In An Extended Scottish Jewish Family. In Diemling, Maria and Ray, Larry. Boundaries, Identity and belonging in Modern Judaism. Routledge. 2016: 162-176. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-uk341
National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE11 7GE, Unit... more National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE11 7GE, United Kingdom. Web site: http://www.niace.org.uk. ... For the first edition, see ED 447 318. The second edition was revised by Chris Holland and Jaine Chisholm Caunt with additional ...
This project investigated developments in basic education in the workplace, by means of a general... more This project investigated developments in basic education in the workplace, by means of a general review of the national and international context, case studies of programmes within companies and a survey of employers in the North West of England. A variety of research methods were used in this project: observation, interviews, questionnaires and telephone interviews. In addition residential writing and video-making weekends brought together students from different workplaces to compare and document their experiences. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust 1991-1993.
In April 1992, 16 individuals who were all employed in manual or nonsupervisory jobs and who had ... more In April 1992, 16 individuals who were all employed in manual or nonsupervisory jobs and who had all participated in employer-funded advlt education courses offered partly or entirely during work hours attended a weekend retreat in the north of England. They spent the weekend talking and writing about their experiences with work-based learning, its effect on their lives, and the broader benef'ts of work-based education programs. This book presents the collected writings of the weekend program's participants. The writings are in various formats, including reports, essays, and poems. In the introductory section, two participants describe their involvement in workplace learning and its significance in their lives. The writings in chapters 1 and 2 describe typical workdays in the lives of service occupation and factory workers, and the poems and essays i chapter 3 focus on the participants' reasons for taking work-based adult education courses and the personal and career benefits of the courses. The works presented in chapter 4 offer reasons why giving employees access to education during work time benefits employers and include points for employers to consider when developing work-based learning programs. In chapter 5, participants offer their views of the weekend retreat. (MN)