Accessing Post-School Studies

Accessing Post-School Studies
Author: Venicia McGhie & Madge du Preez
Publisher: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2017-12-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1928357415

ÿ ?Accessing Post-School Studies: A student?s GPS to successful learning makes a valuable contribution to often problematic and pertinent South African higher education issues such as student access and success, student learning, student support and student engagement. In this regard, the authors draw on the works of higher education theorists such as Kuh, Tinto, Marton and S„lj”. The book is primarily a helpful resource for South African learners in school, students at universities, life orientation teachers, as well as parents of prospective university students. It will especially assist students to adapt to the university environment." ? Prof Victor N. Teise (Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, South Africa)

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

Teaching Resistant Learners in Post-School Education

Teaching Resistant Learners in Post-School Education
Author: Merv Lebor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2022-08-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000619893

This book explores various frameworks within which post-school education is situated and the practice that actually happens in classrooms and lecture theatres, especially when things go wrong. Examining how and why some students choose to resist learning whilst undertaking tertiary education, this book provides practical tips and guidance for educators on how to work through difficult situations where learning isn’t a student’s priority. Considering both theory and practice, the book offers a range of practical solutions to difficult circumstances, such as the greater emphasis on distance learning, the growth of predatory or fake journals to the challenges of too much screen time, ghostwriters and plagiarism, speaking out of turn, consistent lateness, absenteeism and even violent behaviour. Looking at contexts and behaviours where learning is rejected or ignored, through students’ indifference or resistance, from a range of perspectives, this book is ideal reading for anyone working or involved in tertiary education, including teacher trainees, tutors, teacher educators, managers, administrators and lecturers working at universities and colleges, as well as students who may benefit from discussions of the problematic nature of learning.

Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education

Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education
Author: Ted Fleming
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2017-02-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137569743

This book explores the access and participation issues present within Higher Education in Ireland. It examines policy, pedagogy and practices in relation to widening participation and documents the progress and challenges encountered in furthering the ‘access agenda’ over the past two decades. Access has become an integral part of how Higher Education understands itself and how it explains the value of what it does for society as a whole. Improving access to education strengthens social cohesion, lessens inequality, guarantees the future vitality of tertiary institutions and ensures economic competitiveness and flexibility in the era of the “Knowledge Based Economy”. Offering a coherent, critical account of recent developments in Irish Higher Education and the implications for Irish society as a whole, this book is essential for those involved both in researching the field and in Higher Education itself.

Access to Higher Education

Access to Higher Education
Author: Graeme Atherton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1137411902

This book is the first systematic attempt to examine one of the biggest challenges facing universities and society in the 21st century: how do we create opportunities to allow people from all social backgrounds to benefit from higher education? It examines how policymakers, higher education institutions and civil society organisations are meeting this challenge across the globe. Each chapter focuses on one of 12 countries, including the economically powerful US and Germany, developing nations from Africa and South America and the new higher education 'superpowers' of China and India. Access to Higher Education shows that across these different nations inequalities in higher education participation are common, but their nature differs. It argues for a new, 'nationhood' based approach to understanding why these differences exist.

Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education

Equity and Access to High Skills through Higher Vocational Education
Author: Elizabeth Knight
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2022-03-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3030845028

This book explores new and distinctive forms of higher vocational education across the globe, and asks how the sector is changing in response to the demands of the 21st century. These new forms of education respond to two key policy concerns: an emphasis on high skills as a means to achieve economic competitiveness, and the promise of open access for adults hitherto excluded from higher education. Examining a range of geographic contexts, the editors and contributors aim to address these contexts and highlight various similarities and differences in developments. They locate their analyses within the various political and socio-economic contexts, which can make particular reforms possible and achievable in one context and almost unthinkable in another. Ultimately, the book promotes a critical understanding of evolving provisions of higher vocational education, refusing assumptions that policy borrowing from apparently ‘successful’ countries offers a straightforward model for others to adopt.

Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice

Open Learning as a Means of Advancing Social Justice
Author: Tabisa Mayisela
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2024-01-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1928502431

This volume investigates the uptake of ‘open learning’ in South African Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges and higher education institutions. Comprised of 16 studies focused on activities at a range of colleges and universities across the country, these chapters aim to promote a better understanding of open learning practices across the Post- School Education and Training (PSET) sector, including issues such as: recognition of prior learning, access for students with disabilities, work integrated learning, professional development, novel student funding mechanisms, leadership for open educational practices, institutional culture, student support, blended and online learning, flexible learning, online assessment, open educational resource development models and funding, and micro- credentials. This collection of peer-reviewed chapters contributes to understanding the ways in which South African PSET institutions and educators are interpreting ‘open learning’ as a means of advancing social justice. It includes a historical and contemporary understanding of the economic, cultural and political obstacles facing PSET, drawing on Nancy Fraser’s theory of social justice as ‘participatory parity’ to better understand the ways in which ‘open learning’ may address systemic social injustices in order to allow South African students and educators to thrive. This volume emerges from research conducted by the Cases on Open Learning (COOL) project, an initiative by the Department of Higher Education and Training in partnership with the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT) at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa.

Handbook of Adolescent Transition Education for Youth with Disabilities

Handbook of Adolescent Transition Education for Youth with Disabilities
Author: Karrie A. Shogren
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 717
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0429582242

Now in a thoroughly revised and updated second edition, this handbook provides a comprehensive resource for those who facilitate the complex transitions to adulthood for adolescents with disabilities. Building on the previous edition, the text includes recent advances in the field of adolescent transition education, with a focus on innovation in assessment, intervention, and supports for the effective transition from school to adult life. The second edition reflects the changing nature of the demands of transition education and adopts a "life design" approach. This critical resource is appropriate for researchers and graduate-level instructors in special and vocational education, in-service administrators and policy makers, and transition service providers.

Transitions to Post-School Life

Transitions to Post-School Life
Author: Margarita Pavlova
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2017-11-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9811064768

This book addresses growing reservations about the relevance of educational systems to the economic and social needs of individuals by examining different aspects of transitions from school to work or further studies within formal and informal settings in Asia. Highlighting important issues such as selectiveness and inclusiveness, integration of transversal competencies, vocationalisation of secondary schooling, approaches to career guidance and emerging models of student support, it is of particular interest to educators, policymakers and other stakeholders who are concerned about the effectiveness of system-wide and institutional-based approaches. The first part of the book explores different models, mechanisms and approaches to policy and practice in the context of Asia, while the second part examines Hong Kong students’ transitions to post-school life and provides an account of issues and challenges the government and individual schools experience in terms of structural support for both mainstream and special-needs students.

University Access and Success

University Access and Success
Author: Merridy Wilson-Strydom
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2015-02-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317701828

The challenge of widening access and participation in higher education in a manner that ensures students are successful in their studies is a major issue globally and a significant research-focus within higher education studies and higher education policy. Similarly, the challenge of under-preparedness of students entering higher education has become increasingly pertinent as universities in both developed and developing countries struggle to improve their throughput rates in a context in which schooling no longer seems to provide sufficient preparation for entering university. In this book Merridy Wilson-Strydom applies the capabilities approach to better understand university access and participation and draws on a rich case study from South Africa to critically and innovatively explore the complex and contradictory terrain of access with success. The book integrates quantitative and qualitative research with theory and practical application to provide a new framework for considering and improving the transition from school to university. University Access and Success will appeal to academics and researchers in the field of higher education internationally. The book also contributes to the growing body of international and comparative scholarship on the capabilities approach in higher education and will therefore be of value to higher education practitioners, such as those working in the promotion of teaching and learning, higher education quality assurance, institutional research and student affairs.