Improving disabled students' learning

M Fuller, J Georgeson, M Healey… - London and New …, 2009 - api.taylorfrancis.com
M Fuller, J Georgeson, M Healey, A Hurst, K Kelly, S Riddell, H Roberts, E Weedon
London and New York: Routledge, 2009api.taylorfrancis.com
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 …
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.
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