Education : Adult & Continuing Education

Most teaching assistants (TAs) studying for Foundation Degrees need to do action research. This book acts as an introduction to research methods, and will be especially useful if you are doing such work for the first time. Using real case studies from practising TAs in primary and early years settings, it provides an overview of the processes involved in action research, showing how to identify an issue, design and carry out a course of action, and evaluate the impact. more...

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Dyslexia: Students in Need offers a positive approach to students with dyslexia in further and higher education. Students with dyslexia gain degrees and professional qualifications, and successes of this kind often depend on appropriate educational and technological support and upon funding.  Dyslexia: Students in Need, in an easy-to-read typeface, tackles the problems and challenges identified by students themselves. It contains •  Information on applications and admissions to colleges and universities  •  Seeking information, support and funding about dyslexia from institutions  •  How to apply for funding from the Disabled Students’ Allowance (DSA)  •  Study skills relevant to dyslexia and to course requirements  •  Examples of how to maximise the strengths and abilities associated with dyslexia  •  Ideas about the use of computers, software and other technologies relevant to dyslexia  •  How to cope with revision and exams  •  Personal case studies written by undergraduate and postgraduate students with dyslexia.Not only invaluable for dyslexic students, but valuable reading for Heads of Departments, admissions tutors, Equal Opportunities co-ordinators, lectures, personal tutors and librarians. more...

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Examining the social, educational and political background behind making e-learning accessible in higher and further education, this guide evaluates practice and provision, and explores the tools, methods and approaches available for improving accessible practice. It also provides advice on the impact of accessibility legislation. more...

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In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their creative redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific enquiry and new technologies shape aesthetic and cultural values offers groundbreaking guidelines for art education in an era of emerging new media. This is the first book concerned with educating artists for the post-digital age, propelling artists into unknown territory. A culturally diverse range of art educators focus on teaching their students to create artworks that explore the complex balance between cultural pride and global awareness. They demonstrate how the dynamic interplay between digital, biological, and cultural systems calls for alternative pedagogical strategies that encourage student-centered, self-regulated, participatory, interactive, and immersive learning. Educating Artists for the Future charts the diaphanous boundaries between art, science, technology, and culture that are reshaping art education. more...

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This book is a major study of the nature, aims and context of vocational education at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It provides a comprehensive treatment of the relationship between the aims of economics and education. more...

Price: $170.00