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This is an important title for all academic and professional staff within higher education (HE) who have a personal tutoring, student support or advising role. It examines key topics in relation to tutoring including definitions, coaching, core values and skills, boundaries, monitoring students, undertaking group and individual tutorials and the need to measure impact. Throughout, the text encourages reflection and the need to think critically about the role of the personal tutor. A scholarly and practical text, it comprehensively brings together relevant academic literature to inform tutoring practice as well as contextualising the role within the HE policy and quality assurance landscape. Please also see the forthcoming The Higher Education Personal Tutor’s and Advisor’s Companion where the themes of this book are illustrated by real life case studies form universities around the UK.
Johannes Trachsel was born in 1689 in Lenk, Bern, Switzerland. His parents were Jakob Trachsel and Margaretha Brengel. He married Anna Maria in about 1718 and they settled in Wolfersheim and had five children. They emigrated in 1737 and settled in Egypt, Pennsylvania. He married Anna Magdalena Roth Schreiber in 1750 and died later that year. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Oklahoma and Kansas.
Educational inequalities have strongly impacted disadvantaged and underserved populations such us indigenous, Roma, migrant children, students with disabilities, and those affected by poverty. A wide array of research has contributed to explaining the mechanisms and effects of inequalities in the achievement patterns, dropout rates, disengagement in the school experiences of children and youth traditionally excluded. Research also suggests the negative consequences for child development - including cognitive, language, and social-emotional functioning - of poverty and lack of quality education in the early years. Consequently, the current unequal access to optimal learning environments for e...