Hidden Abilities In Higher Education

Author : Linda Lucas Walling
Publisher : First-Year Experience and Students in Transition University of South Carolina
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Abilities in Higher Education written by Linda Lucas Walling and published by First-Year Experience and Students in Transition University of South Carolina. This book was released on 1996 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents 11 papers which bring together information to help administrators, faculty, and staff in institutions of higher education better understand the needs of college freshmen and other new students with disabilities, including ways to meet those needs and the legal requirements which affect decision-making about service provision. An introductory chapter notes the increasing numbers of students reporting a disability, the varying situations of such students, and commonalities. The 11 papers are: (1) "Special Talents in a Not-So-New Population" (Thomas G. West); (2) "Hidden Abilities--Visible Disabilities?" (Linda Lucas Walling); (3) "The Human Factor" (William H. Jones); (4) "Multiple Stigma or Multiple Opportunity?: New Students with Disabilities from Diverse Cultural Backgrounds" (Blanche Glimps and Karen F. Davis); (5) "Students with Learning Disabilities and the Social Domain" (Nancy Mari Purcell); (6) "Marginal Beginnings but Great Endings" (Angela Renaud); (7) "A Safety Net for Success: An Approach to Transition Planning" (Jolene Bordewick); (8) "Leveling the Playing Field: Alternative Testing Arrangements" (Margaret A. Chmielewski); (9) "Lessening Stumbling Blocks to Retention through Accessible Academic Libraries" (Donna Z. Pontau); (10) "Building Bridges for Institutions of Higher Education: Assistive Technology Resources" (Robbie Ludy and Merv Blunt); and (11) "The Legal Perspective: Higher Education and Students with Disabilities" (Rosvelt Martain, Jr.). Three appendices describe communication techniques often used by people with selected disabilities; list state assistive technology projects; and list selected organizations, serials, and Internet resources. (Individual papers contain references and 20 general recommended readings are listed.) (DB)

Author : James J. F. Forest
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1576078965
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Higher Education in the United States [2 volumes] written by James J. F. Forest and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-06-21 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the changing landscape of American higher education, from academic freedom to virtual universities, from campus crime to Pell Grants, from the Student Privacy Act to student diversity. In the years following World War II, college and university enrollment doubled, students revolted, faculty unionized, and community colleges evolved. Tuition and technology soared, as did the number of first-generation, minority, and women students. These changes radically transformed the American system of postsecondary education. Today, that system is in trouble. Its aging professoriate prepares for retirement, but low academic salaries can no longer attract the best minds to replace them. A flood of corporate dollars funds commercial research, but money for basic research—the seedbed of American scientific preeminence—has dried up. Colleges and universities also face heated competition with for-profit education providers for students, faculty, and external financial support, along with the costs of providing remedial education to growing numbers of students who are unprepared for postsecondary education. Higher Education in the United States provides a comprehensive analysis of these issues and others that scholars and practitioners of higher education study, discuss, and grapple with on a daily basis.

Author : Holley A. Belch
Publisher : John Wiley and Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118216652
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Serving Students with Disabilities written by Holley A. Belch and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue examines what student services professionals can do to ensure the success of the growing population of students with disabilities. The contributors explore the critical role that community and dignity play in creating a meaningful educational experience for students with disabilities and show how to help these students gain meaningful access and full participation in campus activities. In addition to such common concerns as fulfilling legal requirements and overcoming architectural barriers, the contributors also address a full range of important issues such as effective approaches to recruitment and retention, strategies for career and academic advising, and the impact of financial resources on funding programs and services. This is the 91st issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Student Services.

Author : Doug Parkin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136730249
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Leading Learning and Teaching in Higher Education written by Doug Parkin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Learning and Teaching in Higher Education brings together contemporary ideas on leadership, engagement and student learning into a practical solutions-based resource designed for those undertaking the challenge of leading a university-level teaching module, programme or suite of programmes, particularly through periods of transformation or change. It encourages both first time academic leaders and those who have held teaching leadership roles for some time to review and formalise their development in a systematic, simple way and acts as a framework for navigating the opportunities and challenges involved in inspiring shared purpose, strong commitment and innovation in higher education teaching. With a clear focus on the energy of leadership rather than the practice of management, and with a strong emphasis on collaborative engagement running throughout, this books offers: Insightful guidance which is not bound to subject-specific requirements, making it relevant across the spectrum of course offerings at any one institution. An enabling, people-focussed foundation for leadership. Tools and frameworks which can be readily applied or adapted for the reader. A focus on core elements of teaching leadership, such as design, delivery, assessment and building a programme team. A flexible and pragmatic approach to leadership which avoids a definitive approach, instead encouraging a dynamic method of engaging leadership. Values that assert that leadership and learning go hand-in-hand. A wide-ranging discussion of leadership theories, ideas and values related to the university context. This book puts forward a multifaceted model of programme leadership and links this to a scaffolding of key attributes, skills and qualities that fit the environment of leading learning and teaching in the university. Particularly interested readers will be those beginning to lead teaching in a university setting as well as those who have been leading programme teams and the wider provision of teaching for some time wanting to enhance their skills and perspective.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jaimie Hoffman
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787560546
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Diverse Student Identities in Higher Education written by Jaimie Hoffman and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides educators with a global understanding of the challenges associated with the growing diversity of student identities in higher education, and it provides evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion at different higher education institutions around the world.

Author : Thomas G. West
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615922970
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thinking Like Einstein written by Thomas G. West and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Einstein once said that all of his most important and productive thinking was done by playing with images in his imagination. Only in a secondary stage did he translate - with great effort, he says - these images into the language of words and mathematics that could be understood by others. According to Thomas G. West, Einstein was a classic example of a strong visual thinker, a person who tends to think in images and visual patterns, and sometimes has difficulty with words and numbers. In his awarding-winning book, In the Mind''s Eye, West discussed the connections between highly talented, visually oriented persons like Einstein and certain learning disabilities such as dyslexia. Now, in Thinking Like Einstein, West investigates the new worlds of visual thinking, insight, and creativity made possible by computer graphics and information visualization technologies. He argues that, with the rapid spread of inexpensive and powerful computers, we are now at the beginning of a major transition, moving from an old world based mainly on words and numbers to a new world where high level work in all fields will eventually involve insights based on the display and manipulation of complex information using moving computer images. West profiles several highly creative visual thinkers, such as James Clerk Maxwell, Nikola Tesla, and Richard Feynman, pointing out that there is a long history of using visualization rather than words or numbers to solve problems. Citing the longstanding historical conflicts between image lovers and image haters, West examines the relationship of art, scientific knowledge, and differences in brain capabilities - observing how modern visual thinkers with visualization technologies seem to have learned how to cut through the problems of overspecialization in academia and in the workplace. West predicts that computer visualization technology will radically change the way we all work and think. For thousands of years the technology of writing and reading has tended to promote the dominance of the left hemisphere of the brain, with its linear processing of words and numbers. Now the spread of graphical computer technologies is permitting a return to our visual roots with a new balance between hemispheres and ways of thinking - presenting new opportunities for problem solving and big picture thinking. Thus, he argues that the newest technologies will help us to reaffirm some of our oldest capabilities, allowing us to see previously unseen patterns and to restore a balance in thought and action.

Author : Andrew Azzopardi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9462094314
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Youth: Responding to Lives written by Andrew Azzopardi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws from various fields of knowledge, in an effort to theorise, create new and innovative conceptual platforms and develop further the hybrid idea of discourses around social inclusion and youth (from policy, practice and research perspectives). Youth: Responding to lives – An international handbook attempts to fill the persistent gap in the problematisation and understanding of inclusion, communalism, citizenship – that are intertwined within the complex youth debate. It writhes and wriggles to highlight the interconnections between the encounters, events and endeavors in young people’s lives. The focus of this edited work is also intended to help us understand how young people shape their development, involvement, and visibility as socio-political actors within their communities. It is this speckled experience of youth that remains one of the most electrifying stages in a community’s lifecycle. Contributors to this text have engaged with notions around identity and change, involvement, social behavior, community cohesion, politics and social activism. The chapters offer an array of critical perspectives on social policies and the broad realm of social inclusion/exclusion and how it affects young people. This book essentially analyses equal opportunities and its allied concepts, including inequality, inequity, disadvantage and diversity that have been studied extensively across all disciplines of social sciences and humanities but now need a youth studies ‘application’.

Author : Aaron Hughey
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1623968054
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book College Student Affairs Journal written by Aaron Hughey and published by IAP. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas G. West
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1615920390
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Mind's Eye written by Thomas G. West and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is recognized as a classic in its field. It still stands alone as a compelling argument against popular myths of conventional intelligence and for the importance of visual thinking and visual technologies as powerful tools to aid and amplify the creative potential of many individuals with dyslexia or other learning difficulties.