Improving Disabled Students' Learning: Experiences And Outcomes Paperback

Elisabet Weedon

How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support? This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation of students is the first to move through university after the enactment of the disability discrimination act, which placed responsibility on universities to create an inclusive environment for disabled students. The research on which the book is based focuses on a selected group of students with a variety of impairments, as they progress through their degree courses. On the way they encounter different styles of teaching and approaches to learning and assessment. The diversity of their views is reflected in the issues they raise: negotiating identities, dealing with transitions, encountering divergent and sometimes confusing teaching and assessment. Improving disabled students' learning goes on to ask university staff how they experience these new demands to widen participation and create more inclusive learning climates. It explores their perspectives on their roles in a changing university sector. Offering insights into the workings of universities, as seen by their central participants, its findings will be of great interest to all practitioners who teach and support disabled students, as well as campaigners for an end to discrimination. Crucially, it foregrounds the views of disabled students themselves, giving rise to a complex, contradictory and always fascinating picture of university life from students whose voices are not always heard.

0415480493

9780415480499

English

Taylor And Francis Ltd

31 Jul 2009

210

Mary fuller is professor of education at the university of gloucestershire and director of the research project on which this book is based. She has worked as lecturer and researcher at the universities of bath, bristol, reading and oxford. Her research interests are in gender, race and disability in educational settings, areas in which she has published extensively.

Sheila Riddell

Hazel Roberts

Mick Healey

Alan Hurst

Mary Fuller