Resources: Higher education students
7 resources found for "Higher education students"
- The Education of Gifted and Talented Children in Music
- The research will explore the restricted identification of musical ability and potential in the classroom and the way identification is impeded by narrow and largely inaccurate social constructions and definitions of gift and talent. The broad focus will be to look at how society frames definitions of gift and talent. The specific focus will be to examine how musical gift and talent are defined. The project aims to provide teachers with...
- PDP and employability: leaving the academic agenda behind?
- This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 16, spring 2010. Tracy Johnson, a lecturer in study skills and a qualified personal coach, asks if Personal Development Planning can fit easily into the academic curriculum or whether it resides more comfortably within the employability agenda
- Supporting the academic writing of widening participation students
- This is a brief description of a student project grant from ESCalate to Joelle Adams of the University of Bath. The project aims to investigate widening participation students’ experiences of writing in higher education and develop suggestions for pedagogical practice to help those students learn effectively in the academy. Using a critical ethnography approach, data will be gathered through a in-depth focus group with students who are the first...
- Editorial : Towards a new psychology of student learning
- This is the editorial for the ESCalate newsletter issue 11, summer 2008 Towards a new psychology of student learning, written by Tony Brown, Director of ESCalate. It explores how psychodynamic theory offers an exploration of relational experience and the defences we use to cope with relations: with self and other and the ego's attempts at self-protection from stress and anxiety in the face of the unfamiliar. Arguing that with a wealth of...
- Feeling stupid : a survey of university students’ experience of social anxiety in learning situations
- Social anxiety is an important area impacting upon student learning in HE and we would like to bring your attention to a new piece of research. In this study, 300 university students at UWE Bristol reported on their experiences of social anxiety in learning situations
- Promoting Education for Sustainable Development in schools and colleges
- This is an ESCalate development project led by Peter Hopkinson of the University of Bradford. The aim of this project was to assess the role and potential effectiveness of HE student volunteering and the exploitation of the HE curriculum to affect pro-sustainability changes on local schools and colleges through student action and involvement. This was mediated through an education for sustainable development network between schools, FE colleges...
- Exploring the psychological wellbeing of students in Higher Education
- This is an article from the ESCalate newsletter, issue 18, autumn 2010 by Daphne Evans. It looks at the psychological wellbeing of students in Higher Education. This is an important area for research because with increased numbers of young people entering higher education, interest in issues relating to the mental health and wellbeing of young people is also increasing