Improving Disabled Students' Learning : Experiences and Outcomes (Hardcover)

PART 1 WHAT IS THE ISSUE WITH DISABLED STUDENTS’ LEARNING?  1. Introduction  PART 2: WHAT OUR RESEARCH STUDY TELLS US  2. Managerialism and equalities: tensions within widening access policy and practice for disabled students in UK universities  3. Listening to disabled students on teaching, learning and reasonable adjustments  4. Assessing disabled students: student and staff experiences of reasonable adjustments  5. Curriculum and pedagogy: challenges and dilemmas for teaching staff  6. Identity work: ways of being a disabled student in higher education  7. The idea of fitness to practise: discourses of disability and the negotiation of identity in initial teacher training  8. Troublesome transitions? Disabled students’ entry into and journey through higher education  9. Organizational structures for disability support: contradictions as catalysts for change  PART 3: WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS OF OUR STUDY OF DISABLED STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES?  10. Reflections and conclusions