Further Opportunities: Learning Difficulties and Disabilities in Further Education
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The book examines how further education for students with learning difficulties and disabilities has emerged from an essentially elitist education system. It explores some of the issues shaping the entitlement to further education for these students in the 1990s. For many people the change that further education and training has undergone in recent years has been interpreted in terms of developing opportunities for student 'choice' and 'rights and entitlements'. Others, more sceptical, perceive a reduction of educational opportunity in favour of market-led notions of 'efficiency'. The book explores aspects of these concerns, including staff development and teaching and learning in this comparatively new area of work; tensions between further education and employment opportunities for students with learning difficulties and disabilities; and a cross-cultural perspective on attitudes and provisions. Booknews Examines how further education for students with learning disabilities has emerged from the elitist UK education system, and explores issues shaping these students' entitlement to further education in the 1990s. Discusses staff development and teaching, and tensions between further education and employment opportunities for students with learning disabilities, within a cross-cultural perspective. Other topics include curriculum influences, parents and carers, and the contrast between inclusive practices and specialist colleges. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Editorial forewordPrefaceIntroduction: The structure and function of post-school opportunities for students with learning difficulties and disabilities1The background to furthering opportunities in FE12The development of further education for students with learning difficulties and disabilities113The emerging culture of transition to further education for students with learning difficulties and disabilities324Disability, disadvantage and vocational education455Curriculum influences and models of teaching and learning726The tensions of inclusive practices and specialist colleges1067Staff development: problems and possibilities1188Those who are left behind: parents and carers1319Developments in the management of learning14010Cross-cultural perspectives on further education and vocational training15211Emerging issues and future directions across the spectrum of further and higher education169References181Name index193Subject index197
