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  • Living and Studying at Home

    Degrees of Inequality

    by Sheila Riddell, Lyn Tett, Hazel Christie, Rachael King, Sofia Shan ...
    Series series Great Debates in Higher Education
    Traditionally, the most socially and academically selective UK universities expected students to move from the family home to the institution during term time. More recently, there has been a growing trend for students to live at home and commute to university, with the proportion commuting driven in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis.Examining commuting through a social ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Autonomy, Rights and Children with Special Educational Needs

    Understanding Capacity across Contexts

    by Sheila Riddell ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This books examines the increased prominence of children’s rights in education to ask whether we are witnessing a paradigm shift within the education system. The author uses a wide range of case studies from Scotland and England to examine the extent to which children and young people with Special Educational Needs/ Additional Support Needs are in practice able to realise their new rights of ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Disability, Culture and Identity

    by Sheila Riddell, Nick Watson ...
    Disabilities, Culture and Identity is a succinct and accessible presentation of current research on disability, culture and identity. It is an ideal text for students and lecturers alike studying and working in the areas of Disability Studies and Social Policy. Disabilities, Culture and Identity provides a comprehensive and well-structured introduction to an area of growing importance. The authors ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Disabled Students in Higher Education

    Perspectives on Widening Access and Changing Policy

    by Sheila Riddell, Teresa Tinklin, Alastair Wilson ...
    As wider access to higher education becomes a top priority for governments in the UK and around the world, this ground-breaking piece of work raises the challenging questions that policy-makers, vice-chancellors and government officials are reluctant to ask.A highly qualified team of authors have closely analyzed rates of participation and the experiences of disabled students in higher education ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Gender and the Politics of the Curriculum

    by Sheila Riddell ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book uses detailed case studies of two secondary schools to examine the relationship between curriculum choice and gender identity among fourteen-year-old pupils making their first choices about what subjects to pursue at exam level. It reveals a two way process. Pupils’ decisions on what subject to take are influenced by how they perceive themselves in gender terms, and the curriculum once ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Education, Disability and Social Policy

    by Brian Lamb, Jo Rose, Liz Todd, Sheila Riddell, Elisabet Weedon, Caireen Sutherland, Martin McLean, Valentina Migliarini, Chelsea Stinson, Rob Webster, Robin Banerjee ...
    Educational opportunities for disabled children remain a vital contemporary issue in British social policy. This new edition of the milestone book Education, Disability and Social Policy outlines critical debates in education concerning the position and experiences of disabled children and young people within a contemporary policy context.Incorporating new voices from leading thinkers, this second ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Resolving Disputes about Educational Provision

    A Comparative Perspective on Special Educational Needs

    by Neville Harris, Sheila Riddell ...
    With contributions by recognised experts in the field of education law, this book is a comparative study of the resolution of special education disputes, including via mediation. It analyses the varying approaches in England, Scotland, the US and the Netherlands and addresses major questions of dispute resolution, redress, judicial and non-judicial approaches and the protection of citizens' rights ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Improving Disabled Students' Learning

    Experiences and Outcomes

    by Mary Fuller, Jan Georgeson, Mick Healey, Alan Hurst, Katie Kelly, Sheila Riddell, Hazel Roberts, Elisabet Weedon ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    How do disabled students feel about their time at university? What practices and policies work and what challenges do they encounter? How do they view staff and those providing learning support?This book sets out to show how disabled students experience university life today. The current generation of students is the first to move through university after the enactment of the Disability ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Special Education and Globalisation

    Edited by Sheila Riddell ...
    Special Education and Globalization illustrates the way in which inclusive education has become the dominant discourse across Europe and the wider international context. Contributions to this book highlight the tensions evident within each jurisdiction, related to the construction of disability within specific historical and cultural antecedents. These tensions often involve the relationship ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Higher Education in Scotland and the UK

    Diverging or Converging Systems?

    Edited by Sheila Riddell ...

    $92.99 CAD

  • Gender, Policy and Educational Change

    Shifting Agendas in the UK and Europe

    Edited by Sheila Riddell, Jane Salisbury ...
    Gender equality has been a major educational theme for the past two decades and has become interwoven with other policy themes, including those of marketisation and managerialism. Contributors to this strong collection are key researchers in their fields and seek to address the following questions: * What patterns are discernible in the educational attainment of girls and boys over the past two ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • Higher Education Funding and Access in International Perspective

    Edited by Sheila Riddell, Sarah Minty, Elisabet Wheedon, Susan Whittaker ...
    Series series Great Debates in Higher Education
    This book explores the way in which the pressures of globalisation are shaping higher education funding and access across the world. Higher education is seen as a way of developing human capital and building knowledge economies, but major debates continue about who should attend university; how the costs of higher education should be distributed between the individual student and the state; how ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD