Available online
Description
Alan Walbridge came to Northern Ireland in 1965 and spent five years in a student apprenticeship in industry. After a short time working in Short Brothers he moved into education and lectured in Mathematics at Queen’s University Belfast before becoming a lecturer in Electrical Engineering in the University of Ulster. He worked as an Associate Lecturer with The Open University from 1971 to 2002. Between 1976 and 1996 he tutored Technology courses in the Compounds and H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison and also in Maghaberry and Magilligan Prisons.
Alan Walbridge came to Northern Ireland in 1965 and spent five years in a student apprenticeship in industry. After a short time working in Short Brothers he moved into education and lectured in Mathematics at Queen’s University Belfast before becoming a lecturer in Electrical Engineering in the University of Ulster. He worked as an Associate Lecturer with The Open University from 1971 to 2002. Between 1976 and 1996 he tutored Technology courses in the Compounds and H Blocks of the Maze and Long Kesh Prison and also in Maghaberry and Magilligan Prisons.
| Title: | I am not kind of concerned with how I was seen it was how I felt. |
|---|---|
| Description: | Alan Walbridge Open University Associate Lecturer in Technology reflects on his practical teaching experiences working with audio visual materials and home experiment kits and how he felt teaching in the Maze and Long Kesh Prison was easier for him because he was English and because he taught factual courses not ones based on opinions like Social Sciences | Rights statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | Contact the OU Archive prior to any re-use. Contact university-archive@open.ac.uk |
| Contributor: | Alan Technology Tutor |
| Duration: | 00:02:11 |
| Master programe code and title: | Alan Technology Tutor Interview |
| Master programme start time: | 00:02:47 |
| Master programme end time: | 00:04:53 |
| Master programme production number: | 049_T_01 |
| Available to public: | yes |
