Supporting student learning : case studies, experience & practice from higher education / edited by Glenda Crosling & Graham Webb.
Material type: TextSeries: Case studies of teaching in higher educationPublisher: London : Kogan Page, 2002Description: xi, 195 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0749435356
- 9780749435356
- 0749435348
- 9780749435349
- 378.17
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 378.17 SUP (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A286495B |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The case studies. Relating to students. Mentoring Rosie : mentoring students from different cultural, linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds / Martha Bean -- The heart and the machine : assisting a female student who is struggling with learning to use computers / Janet Robbins -- Doing it hard : a teacher deals with his own disapproval, strong emotions and judgemental attitudes while working with a student who has a past / Ormond Simpson -- The personal is the professional : supporting students from gay and lesbian groups which have traditionally been discriminated against / Sonia Thompson -- Intercultural inexperience : intercultural miscommunication produced by body language / Zhu Yunxia and Jacqueline Harrison -- Freedom to fail : bridging the gap between adolescence and adulthood by encouraging students to accept responsibility for self-directed learning / Tanya Kantanis -- Lovely ShirLey : social and emotional miscommunication involving a student from a culturally-diverse background and the medium of e-mail / Anonymous -- Dilemma for two : finding a way through a complex case involving legal, ethical, academic, regulatory, educational and psychological issues / Eira Makepeace -- Developing students' academic skills. I can only do it with aspirin : preparing "non-mathematical" students for mathematics in nursing studies / Linda Galligan -- Accounting? : I can do that : helping first-year students survive a course with a very high failure rate / Linda Forson -- What's information literacy? : assisting beginning students to develop information literacy skills / Dolene Rossi and Leone Hinton -- How can we reach them? : integrating language and academic support in an undergraduate engineering course to help students develop English landuage and report writing skills / Esther Daborn and Bill Guariento -- Reading for life : supporting students with English as a second language and other under-prepared readers to acquire confidence, flexibility and strategic approaches to reading and learning from texts / Faridah Pawan and Sharon Pugh -- Back on course-- but-- : assisting a university student with dyslexia / Vanessa Charter -- Barriers or bridges? : supporting students whose ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds or circumstances have not prepared them for higher education / Daniel Granger -- Taking the initiative : from academic survival to academic success : exploring the attitudes, strategies and skills developed by an overseas postgraduate student who starts with inadequate English proficiency but who achieves outstanding academic success / John Morley -- Working with staff. Letter of the law : supporting first-year commerce students from non-English speaking backgrounds with the language and discourse of law / Colin Beasley -- Academic friend or foe? : entering a difficult academic environment and developing relationships with teachers in order to affect change / Monique Osborn -- Generalizing the generic : adjusting the curriculum of a large business faculty to ensure the development of students' generic skills / Glenda Crosling and Alan Farley -- The golden triangle : learning support staff balancing the triangular relationship between themselves, students and subject tutors / Phillipa Ferst -- Conclusion. Dimensions of Sstudent [i.e. student] learning support / Glenda Crosling and Graham Webb.
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