Authors: David Johnstone
ISBN-13: 9780304331055, ISBN-10: 0304331058
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group
Date Published: August 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)
The book examines how further education for students with learning difficulties and disabilities has emerged from an essentially elitist education system. It explores some of the issues shaping the entitlement to further education for these students in the 1990s. For many people the change that further education and training has undergone in recent years has been interpreted in terms of developing opportunities for student 'choice' and 'rights and entitlements'. Others, more sceptical, perceive a reduction of educational opportunity in favour of market-led notions of 'efficiency'. The book explores aspects of these concerns, including staff development and teaching and learning in this comparatively new area of work; tensions between further education and employment opportunities for students with learning difficulties and disabilities; and a cross-cultural perspective on attitudes and provisions.
Examines how further education for students with learning disabilities has emerged from the elitist UK education system, and explores issues shaping these students' entitlement to further education in the 1990s. Discusses staff development and teaching, and tensions between further education and employment opportunities for students with learning disabilities, within a cross-cultural perspective. Other topics include curriculum influences, parents and carers, and the contrast between inclusive practices and specialist colleges. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Editorial foreword | ||
Preface | ||
Introduction: The structure and function of post-school opportunities for students with learning difficulties and disabilities | ||
1 | The background to furthering opportunities in FE | 1 |
2 | The development of further education for students with learning difficulties and disabilities | 11 |
3 | The emerging culture of transition to further education for students with learning difficulties and disabilities | 32 |
4 | Disability, disadvantage and vocational education | 45 |
5 | Curriculum influences and models of teaching and learning | 72 |
6 | The tensions of inclusive practices and specialist colleges | 106 |
7 | Staff development: problems and possibilities | 118 |
8 | Those who are left behind: parents and carers | 131 |
9 | Developments in the management of learning | 140 |
10 | Cross-cultural perspectives on further education and vocational training | 152 |
11 | Emerging issues and future directions across the spectrum of further and higher education | 169 |
References | 181 | |
Name index | 193 | |
Subject index | 197 |