Inclusion and diversity : meeting the needs of all students / Sue Grace and Phil Gravestock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grace, Sue.

Contributor:

Gravestock, Phil.

Series:

Effective teaching in higher education

Key guides for effective teaching in higher education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College teaching.

Effective teaching.

Inclusive education.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2009.

Summary:

How should you prepare for the first day of class? How can you encourage all students to participate in discussions? How do you ensure disabled students can take part in fieldwork? Increasingly, universities are drawing from a less traditional group of students-international students, disabled students, part-time students, and mature students. This book offers specific, practical advice on the issues that teachers encounter when teaching in a diverse classroom.

Inclusion and Diversity highlights good practice for all students, and provides a helpful structure around the day-to-day experiences of staff and students as they make contact with each other. With reference to the international literature, and discussing some of the educational principles that underpin an inclusive curriculum, this book covers a wide range of useful topics so that teachers will have quick access to guidelines on different aspects of teaching and learning: small and large group teaching, e-learning, work placements, students' lives out of the classroom, personal tutoring, skills agenda, assessment, employability and further study.

Addressing a range of themes, including student age, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, and gender, this book aids all practitioners in higher education today-particularly those new lecturers meeting their students for the first time-to develop a better understanding of the issues involved in teaching a diverse range of students.

Contents:

1 Starting Off: Preparing to Meet Our Students 6

2 Some Educational Principles Underpinning Inclusive Learning and Teaching 29

3 Including All Students in Our Small-Group Teaching 43

4 Working with Students in Large Groups 79

5 Inclusive e-Learning 95

6 Students' Academic Experiences Outside the Classroom 116

7 Students' Lives Out of the Classroom 133

8 Student Skills Agenda 156

9 Assessment Time: How Do We Attempt to Ensure Fairness for All? 176

10 'After the Ball is Over...' 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-239) and index.

ISBN:

9780415430449

0415430445

9780415430456

0415430453

9780203890387

0203890388

OCLC:

225088072