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Disability and the University: A Disabled Students' Manifesto is a
guide to what students with disabilities need to know about
attending university, as well as to the essentials universities
should provide for these students. Each chapter presents a
benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the
institution, and lays clear what they should expect. Written by
former students with disabilities who have traversed the terrain
and experienced higher education, this book is not about disabled
students, but instead is a manifesto, a call for change, a call to
action. It is a guide book, blueprint, and tool for both students
and universities. Disability and the University is divided into
four parts, each examining crucial aspects of higher education,
including the culture of the academy, movement beyond the limits of
compliance, access to and in the institution, and disability
rights. Each chapter is a statement of what every institution of
higher education should provide for disabled students. While every
country has its own practice and laws based on its own experience,
arbitrary national boundaries should no longer be a reason for
practices that do not meet student needs. Disability and the
University speaks across borders, and leaves no doubt about what
needs to be done to develop more inclusive teaching and learning
spaces.
Disability and the University: A Disabled Students' Manifesto is a
guide to what students with disabilities need to know about
attending university, as well as to the essentials universities
should provide for these students. Each chapter presents a
benchmark for students to follow as they travel through the
institution, and lays clear what they should expect. Written by
former students with disabilities who have traversed the terrain
and experienced higher education, this book is not about disabled
students, but instead is a manifesto, a call for change, a call to
action. It is a guide book, blueprint, and tool for both students
and universities. Disability and the University is divided into
four parts, each examining crucial aspects of higher education,
including the culture of the academy, movement beyond the limits of
compliance, access to and in the institution, and disability
rights. Each chapter is a statement of what every institution of
higher education should provide for disabled students. While every
country has its own practice and laws based on its own experience,
arbitrary national boundaries should no longer be a reason for
practices that do not meet student needs. Disability and the
University speaks across borders, and leaves no doubt about what
needs to be done to develop more inclusive teaching and learning
spaces.
Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go
back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies,
what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially,
when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate
Study in Australia: Surviving and Succeeding addresses this with
advice from postgraduate students and recent graduates that will
assure that you are not alone in your endeavors. This project
follows similar editions that focus on Aotearoa/New Zealand, South
Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and is currently
being replicated in Scandinavia. This down-to-earth anthology
shares personal stories from postgraduate students and recent
graduates, employing a practical approach and focusing on the
context of postgraduate studies in Australia. This first-person
approach to research about postgraduate study helps curate the
current understanding, with critical reflections adding to our
collective knowledge. Both prospective and current postgraduate
students will find this collection insightful.
Each contributor to this book was given the remit: "If you could go
back in time to talk with yourself when you began your studies,
what advice would you give?" Hindsight is such a bonus, especially,
when vying for your doctorate or postgraduate degree. Postgraduate
Study in Australia: Surviving and Succeeding addresses this with
advice from postgraduate students and recent graduates that will
assure that you are not alone in your endeavors. This project
follows similar editions that focus on Aotearoa/New Zealand, South
Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and is currently
being replicated in Scandinavia. This down-to-earth anthology
shares personal stories from postgraduate students and recent
graduates, employing a practical approach and focusing on the
context of postgraduate studies in Australia. This first-person
approach to research about postgraduate study helps curate the
current understanding, with critical reflections adding to our
collective knowledge. Both prospective and current postgraduate
students will find this collection insightful.
The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding is an edited book written
for prospective and current doctoral students by a mix of doctoral
students and those who have recently completed their doctorates.
The premise is simple: if you could go back in time and talk with
yourself when you began your studies, what advice would you give?
Isn't hindsight a bonus? If only I knew then what I know now! The
Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding follows editions focused on
study in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, the U.K., U.S., and South
Africa. What sets The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding apart
from many others on the market is its down-to-earth and practical
approach. Furthermore, its originality also lies in the fact that
it is grounded in the context of doctoral studies in the Nordic
countries.
The premise of this book is simple: if the chapter writers could go
back in time and talk with themselves when they began their
studies, what advice would they give? Isn't hindsight a bonus? Each
chapter offers this hindsight. The chapters are not personal
stories, but useful lessons learned through experience. These
lessons are offered to aspiring and current graduate students to
help their studies be successful. Chapters contain contributions
from a range of academics and academic-practitioners, from those
getting established in their careers to those that are more novice
and emergent. Contributors include scholars from many universities
throughout the United States, and they cover essential aspects of
graduate study, such as writing and publishing, relationships with
supervisors, utilizing rejection and critique, and becoming a
researcher. Contributors write of studying for higher degrees and
coping with family, illness, disability, and distance. Culture is
bridged between Hispanic scholars and their colleagues in
mainstream academia, and international students offer advice to
those wanting to study at an American university. This book
provides indispensable advice that every graduate student can
utilize and follows on from the initial, successful publication of
Postgraduate Study in Aotearoa New Zealand: Surviving and
Succeeding (2014). The US edition is part of an international
'survive and succeed' series also being produced in Australia, the
UK, and South Africa.
This book contributes significantly to the conversation about
inclusion as a critical component of school culture. Educating All
recounts Christopher McMaster's experience as a critical
ethnographer in a school community, given the task of not only
studying the institution's culture, but of creating change as well.
The school used a whole-school framework known as the Index for
Inclusion, which addressed students identified as having "special"
or learning needs. The outcome of this process was the realization
that the faculty and the system were not adequately providing
optimum services to "special needs" students. By incorporating the
special needs unit into a larger department and by utilizing it as
a teaching center rather than a classroom, the staff and school
leadership were able to produce a better alignment of value and
practice and to provide a re-interpretation of just what is meant
by "mainstream".
This book contributes significantly to the conversation about
inclusion as a critical component of school culture. Educating All
recounts Christopher McMaster's experience as a critical
ethnographer in a school community, given the task of not only
studying the institution's culture, but of creating change as well.
The school used a whole-school framework known as the Index for
Inclusion, which addressed students identified as having "special"
or learning needs. The outcome of this process was the realization
that the faculty and the system were not adequately providing
optimum services to "special needs" students. By incorporating the
special needs unit into a larger department and by utilizing it as
a teaching center rather than a classroom, the staff and school
leadership were able to produce a better alignment of value and
practice and to provide a re-interpretation of just what is meant
by "mainstream".
The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding is an edited book written
for prospective and current doctoral students by a mix of doctoral
students and those who have recently completed their doctorates.
The premise is simple: if you could go back in time and talk with
yourself when you began your studies, what advice would you give?
Isn't hindsight a bonus? If only I knew then what I know now! The
Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding follows editions focused on
study in Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, the U.K., U.S., and South
Africa. What sets The Nordic PhD: Surviving and Succeeding apart
from many others on the market is its down-to-earth and practical
approach. Furthermore, its originality also lies in the fact that
it is grounded in the context of doctoral studies in the Nordic
countries.
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Seeders (Paperback)
Christopher McMaster
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R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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MisStep (Paperback)
Christopher McMaster
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Discovery Miles 4 130
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The book explores concerns about the lack of higher education
transformation around issues of equity, curriculum reform, language
and race, and how students navigate higher education complexities.
Students' self-reflective abilities, creativity and pragmatic
approaches to surviving and succeeding are indicators that
postgraduate student success is as much internally as externally
determined. Each chapter speaks from a uniquely South African
perspective. The editors have tried to remain true to the voice of
each contributor, while simultaneously providing a coherent body of
scholarly work.
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