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Twelve steps to learning
- Author:
- JACOBSEN Yola
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 4(1), September 2000, pp.30-31.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
People with learning difficulties have produced their own charter on education and learning.
Practising theory
- Author:
- CULLEN Anne
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 10(7), March 1999, pp.18-21.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
Asks whether the learning theory of 'andragogy' is as relevant and appropriate in a classroom of adults with learning difficulties as it is in a mainstream classroom.
The Learning society and people with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- RIDDELL Sheila, et al
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 258p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bristol
There is a growing concern about the social exclusion of a range of minority groups including people with learning difficulties. Life long learning is seen as one of the central means of challenging the exclusion of this group, but also of enhancing their economic status. This book demonstrates that policy based on human capital premises has produced forms of lifelong learning which exacerbate the marginalisation of people with learning difficulties. It reviews the range of policy fields which increasingly intervene in the lifelong learning arena; maps the agencies involved in service delivery and describes their sometimes conflicting ethos; and provides in depth accounts of the lived experiences of individuals with learning difficulties as they navigate life long learning options. It explores the links between community care, education, training, employment, housing and benefits policies in the context of life long learning for people with learning difficulties.
Students caught in the crossfire
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 21.09.06, 2006, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Adults with learning difficulties are losing out as colleges drop courses that fall below GCSE standards, due to changes in government funding. The author looks at the current situation and the debate about whether social services, primary care trusts, and the Learning and Skills Council should jointly fund the courses.
Provision for adults with learning difficulties: pause for thought
- Author:
- CHAPMAN Alan R.
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 6(3), November 1994, pp.82-83.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
A funding crisis for specialist provision in Sheffield has helped forged strong inter-agency links. Asks whether this has secured quality provision for adults with learning difficulties.
Shifting the focus to the learner's needs
- Author:
- MAUDSLAY Liz
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 13(7), March 2002, pp.17-18.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
The concept of person centred planning is central to the Department of Health White Paper Valuing People. Further documents issued under the general title, 'Planning with people - towards person centred approaches' reinforces this policy. Looks at the implications for people with learning difficulties.
Powerful literacies
- Editors:
- CROWTHER Jim, HAMILTON Mary, TETT Lyn
- Publisher:
- National Organisation for Adult Learning
- Publication year:
- 2001
- Pagination:
- 200p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Leicester
Literacy is at the forefront of an agenda of social inclusion, participation and active citizenship. This book seeks to interrogate the ideas, assumptions and policies that inform literacy practice. Includes papers on: contexts for literacy work; the policy context; the role of literacy in people's lives; dyslexia and adult literacy; form filling as a social practice; literacy in South Africa; literacy for citizenship; literacy in Bangladesh; people with learning disabilities; empowering literacy learners and teachers; using Scots literacy in family work; challenges to sharing power in adult literacy programmes; and multiple literacies and bilingual workers in East London.
Learning support for people with learning disabilities: promoting independent living
- Author:
- DAVIES Sheila
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Care, 2(10), June 1999, pp.339-342.
- Publisher:
- Pavilion
The authors suggests that adult education could provide both the theory and models for promoting the independent living skills of people with learning disabilities in community settings.