Supporting Student Learning: Case Studies, Experience and Practice from Higher Education

by Crosling, G.

• ISBN13: 9780749435349
• ISBN10: 0749435348
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

This volume focuses on the support programmes that all higher education establishments have in place to aid and develop student learning. The work is designed to equip HE professionals with an accessible guide to some of the best practices in this field from around the world.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. ix
Introducing Student Learning Support	p. 1
Relating to Students
Mentoring Rosie	p. 17
The Heart and the Machine	p. 25
Doing it Hard	p. 34
The Personal is the Professional	p. 41
Intercultural Inexperience	p. 49
Freedom to Fail	p. 57
Lovely ShirLey	p. 64
Dilemma for Two	p. 72
Developing Students' Academic Skills
I Can Only Do it With Aspirin	p. 81
Accounting?: I Can Do That	p. 88
What's Information Literacy?	p. 96
How Can We Reach Them?	p. 104
Reading for Life	p. 111
Back on Course--But ...	p. 119
Barriers or Bridges?	p. 126
Taking the Initiative: From Academic Survival to Academic Success	p. 134
Working with Staff
Letter of the Law	p. 145
Academic Friend or Foe?	p. 153
Generalizing the Generic	p. 162
The Golden Triangle	p. 170
Conclusion
Dimensions of Sstudent Learning Support	p. 179
Further reading	p. 187
Index	p. 193
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