Student Attainment in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Issues, controversies and debates
Redaktion: Steventon, Graham; Clouder, Lynn; Cureton, Debra

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Within the themes of understanding attainment and challenging practice, the book sets out to explore student attainment as complex and multifaceted. It achieves this by looking at different conceptualizations of what attainment means and to whom; how attainment is shaped by different and often competing agendas and vested interests.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317548577
• Artikelnr.: 44773578

Autorenporträt

Dr Graham Steventon is a senior lecturer in Criminology at Coventry University. He has published and presented at international conferences on pedagogy and the use of technologies for teaching, learning and assessment. Dr Debra Cureton works as a research fellow at the University of Wolverhampton focusing on student experience and success. Lynn Clouder is Professor of Professional Education and Director of the Centre for Excellence in Learning Enhancement in the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at Coventry University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction 1. Influencing change through a strategic approach to
student attainment 2. Dilemmas in addressing the ethnicity attainment gap
3. Addressing the attainment gap at the University of Derby: from theory to
practice? 4. Linking attainment to interculturalism and global citizenship
5. The secret of student success: student identity, belonging and the
psychological contract 6. Intellectuality, student attainment and the
contemporary higher education system 7. Authentic learning: a route to
student attainment? 8. Mentoring for attainment 9. Student attainment
through activity-led cooperative learning 10. Mixing metaphors for academic
writing development 11. Building a house on sand? Are vocational education
and training qualifications an (in)equitable stepping-stone to success in
higher education? 12. (not) Talkin¿ `bout my generation: is higher
education engaging older learners? 13. Being a student and becoming a
professional: tensions and challenges in attaining a professional identity
Issues, controversies and debates: concluding thoughts