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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students to alter their identities and career opportunities than meeting narrow performative criteria of financial targets. Chapters explore students’ struggles with institutional and social structures in the current political and socio-economic climate, before identifying how the transformation of their learner identities is facilitated in the courses by collaborative cultures and supportive tutors. The b...
The contributors describe their involvement in national, local and school level equal opportunities projects. In describing the initiatives, the book reflects their impact and discusses what can be learned from them in the context of boys' underachieving.
Opportunities In . . . series gives you valuable career insight into your job field of choice The most comprehensive career book series available, Opportunities In . . . explores a vast range of professions. In "Opportunities in Teaching Careers," you will find: The latest information on the field Training and education requirements you will need Salary statistics for different positions Up-to-date professional and Internet resources And much more
Presents opportunities for employment in the field of education listing over ninety job descriptions, salary range, education and training requirements, and more.
This text sets out to examine how further education for students with learning difficulties has emerged from the shadows of an essentially elitist education system. It explores some of the issues which are shaping the entitlement to FE for these students in the 1990s.
New Reading and Listening Texts motivate students to speak and think in English. New exam zones in the Powerbook build students' exam skills and confidence. New comprehensive testing programme provides total evaluation for students Grammar and skills development give students a solid base for learning. Training in independent study skills ensures good learning habits. Cross curricular and cross cultural topics motivate students and engage their interest in the wider world.
Using an extended case study, questions of current concern are raised and solutions suggested which take account of the need for equality and justice in science opportunities. The book encourages teachers to accept their own tentative ideas and to refine them as a means of professional development.
“This is a timely and important book which seeks to reclaim universities as places of learning. It is jargon free and forcefully argued. It should be on every principal and vice-chancellor's list of essential reading.” Jon Nixon, Professor of Educational Studies, University of Sheffield The ability to have or to find space in academic life seems to be increasingly difficult since we seem to be consumed by teaching and bidding, overwhelmed by emails and underwhelmed by long arduous meetings. This book explores the concept of learning spaces, the idea that there are diverse forms of spaces within the life and life world of the academic where opportunities to reflect and critique their own ...