Using learning contracts in higher education / edited by John Stephenson and Michael Laycock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Glossary -- Preface -- Ch. 1. Learning Contracts: Scope and Rationale -- Ch. 2. Factors Affecting Negotiation -- Ch. 3. Negotiation as a Learning Tool for Tutors and Students -- Ch. 4. Negotiating Complete Programmes of Study -- Ch. 5. Negotiating in an Institutional Context -- Ch. 6. Informal Learning Contracts for Skills Development in Seminars -- Ch. 7. Development of Capability, DTP and Hypertext Skills using Learning Contracts -- Ch. 8. Supporting the Development of Managerial Competences using Learning Contracts -- Ch. 9. The Learning Contract as an Aid to Self-development and Managerial Competences -- Ch. 10. The Employer's Perspective -- Ch. 11. Using Contracts in Project Placements -- Ch. 12. Learning Contracts and Student Placements with Employers -- Ch. 13. Negotiating Learning Contracts for Fieldwork Placements in Physiotherapy -- Ch. 14. Learning Contracts for the Industrial Experience of Hospitality Management Students -- Ch. 15. Using Student-driven Learning Contracts in Work-based Learning and with Small Businesses -- Ch. 16. Work-based Learning Contracts -- Ch. 17. Learning Contracts and a Company Franchised Programme -- Ch. 18. The Use of Learning Contracts in a Self-managed Learning MBA Programme -- Ch. 19. The Use of Learning Contracts for Work-based Management Education and Development -- Ch. 20. Learning Conversations and the Personal Learning Contract: A Methodology for Enabling Work-based Learners to Become More Self-organised -- Ch. 21. Custom-built Learning Contracts for Corporate Clients -- Ch. 22. Institutional Issues in the Implementation of Work-based Learning Contracts -- Ch. 23. The Place and Potential Use of Learning Contracts in Higher Education -- Index.

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