IMPROVING DISABLED STUDENTS' LEARNING by Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson, Elisabet Weedon ( 9781136034060 )

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Title:

IMPROVING DISABLED STUDENTS' LEARNING
EXPERIENCES AND OUTCOMES

By:

Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson, Elisabet Weedon

Format:

Electronic book text

List price:	£31.99
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ISBN 10:

1136034064

ISBN 13:

9781136034060

Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 May, 2013

Series:

Improving Learning

Pages:

210

Synopsis:

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support? This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation of students is the first to move through university after the enactment of the Disability Discrimination Act, which placed responsibility on universities to create an inclusive environment for disabled students. The research on which the book is based focuses on a selected group of students with a variety of impairments, as they progress through their degree courses. On the way they encounter different styles of teaching and approaches to learning and assessment. The diversity of their views is reflected in the issues they raise: negotiating identities, dealing with transitions, encountering divergent and sometimes confusing teaching and assessment. Improving Disabled Students' Learning goes on to ask university staff how they experience these new demands to widen participation and create more inclusive learning climates. It explores their perspectives on their roles in a changing university sector. Offering insights into the workings of universities, as seen by their central participants, its findings will be of great interest to all practitioners who teach and support disabled students, as well as campaigners for an end to discrimination. Crucially, it foregrounds the views of disabled students themselves, giving rise to a complex, contradictory and always fascinating picture of university life from students whose voices are not always heard.

Illustrations:

6 Tables, black and white

Publication:

Imprint:

Routledge

Returns:

Non-returnable

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