Access to Academics

Access to Academics
Author: Joy Egbert
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Education, Bilingual
ISBN: 9780138156763

Access to Academics: Planning Instruction for K-12 Classrooms with ELLs takes a different look at language than most other books - it addresses it as something students must use constantly, in a variety of school venues and in different ways depending on the context. The book shows language as vital to content access and thereby academic achievement, but, more importantly, it also provides step-by-step instructions explaining how to help students acquire the language they need. Although the main emphasis is on English language learners (ELLs), the term "diverse learners" used throughout also encompasses the great variety in any classroom of student backgrounds, abilities, needs, and interests.

Access To Academics for All Students

Access To Academics for All Students
Author: Paula Kluth
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2003-06-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135636745

Presents a critical approach to inclusive education theory and practice and a framework for fostering access to academics for all students; challenges the deficit-driven model.

Academic Ableism

Academic Ableism
Author: Jay Dolmage
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 047205371X

Places notions of disability at the center of higher education and argues that inclusiveness allows for a better education for everyone

Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Author: Mick Healey
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781951414054

Writing about Learning and Teaching in Higher Education offers detailed guidance to scholars at all stages-experienced and new academics, graduate students, and undergraduates-regarding how to write about learning and teaching in higher education. It evokes established practices, recommends new ones, and challenges readers to expand notions of scholarship by describing reasons for publishing across a range of genres, from the traditional empirical research article to modes such as stories and social media that are newly recognized in scholarly arenas. The book provides practical guidance for scholars in writing each genre-and in getting them published. To illustrate how choices about writing play out in practice, we share throughout the book our own experiences as well as reflections from a range of scholars, including both highly experienced, widely published experts and newcomers to writing about learning and teaching in higher education. The diversity of voices we include is intended to complement the variety of genres we discuss, enacting as well as arguing for an embrace of multiplicity in writing about learning and teaching in higher education.

Mad at School

Mad at School
Author: Margaret Price
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0472071386

Explores the contested boundaries between disability, illness, and mental illness in higher education

Shaping Higher Education with Students

Shaping Higher Education with Students
Author: Vincent C. H. Tong
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1787351114

Forging closer links between university research and teaching has become an important way to enhance the quality of higher education across the world. As student engagement takes centre stage in academic life, how can academics and university leaders engage with their students to connect research and teaching more effectively? In this highly accessible book, the contributors show how students and academics can work in partnership to shape research-based education. Featuring student perspectives, it offers academics and university leaders practical suggestions and inspiring ideas on higher education pedagogy, including principles of working with students as partners in higher education, connecting students with real-world outputs, transcending disciplinary boundaries in student research activities, connecting students with the workplace, and innovative assessment and teaching practices. Written and edited in full collaboration with students and leading educator-researchers from a wide spectrum of academic disciplines, this book poses fundamental questions about learning and learning communities in contemporary higher education.

Academic E-Books

Academic E-Books
Author: Suzanne M. Ward
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2015-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1612494293

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences. Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users’ experiences with scholarly works.

Social Media for Academics

Social Media for Academics
Author: Diane Rasmussen Neal
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-08-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 178063319X

This book provides an overview of social media technologies in the context of practical implementation for academics, guided by applied research findings, current best practices, and the author's successful experiences with using social media in academic settings. It also provides academics with sensible and easy strategies for implementing a wide spectrum of social media and related technologies - such as blogs, wikis, Facebook, and various Google tools for professional, teaching, and research endeavours. - No other book exists that assists academics in learning how to use social media to benefit their teaching and research - The editor has an extensive background in social media teaching, consulting, research, and everyday use - All the contributors come to the book with a common goal, from various expertise areas and perspectives

Words Their Way

Words Their Way
Author: Donald R. Bear
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780137035106

"Words Their Way" is a hands-on, developmentally driven approach to word study that illustrates how to integrate and teach children phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. This fifth edition features updated activities, expanded coverage of English learners, and emphasis on progress monitoring.

Access to education as ‘rights’ and ‘ability’. A case study of access to basic education in Bangladesh

Access to education as ‘rights’ and ‘ability’. A case study of access to basic education in Bangladesh
Author: Asim Dio
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3668281882

Master's Thesis from the year 2015 in the subject Pedagogy - School System, Educational and School Politics, grade: 71, The Australian National University (Crawford School of Public Policy), course: POGO8035, language: English, abstract: Education is a catalyst for human development. Considering this fact access to basic education is made free and compulsory for all citizens in Bangladesh. Government has been taking numerous policy measures and programmatic interventions to enhance the access to education and thus to achieve the target of 100 per cent access to education by 2015. However this study using secondary research method reveals that despite of achievements in some areas there are still notable gaps between achievements and targets. This study uses an analytical lens constructed with rights and ability notions of access. It analyses the present scenario in access to education to explore to what extent the education system is providing rights of access to education. At the same time it examines the efficiency of the education system and policies to what extent those are able to empower the students with ability to enter, sustain and succeed in basic education. The study has found commendable achievement in enrollment and gender disparity. However, from the ability perspective the education system is still not enough inclusive with ethnic and socio-economic disparity. Special measures need to be taken in the area of access to education of children with special needs, access to education of indigenous peoples and more investments in infrastructure.