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1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Higher Education Series |
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Routledge Research in Higher Education Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: Theoretical Foundations -- 1. Setting the Context -- Introduction -- Dimensions of Marginalization -- Incidence of Marginality -- The Student Success Movement -- Enhancing the Learning of Marginal Students -- The Cognitive Aspects of Student Development -- The Role that Environment Plays -- Creating Conditions for Shaping Modifying Environments -- The Context for a Responsive Paradigm -- 2. The Marginal Student in the Higher Education Setting -- Describing and Defining the Marginal Student |
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Marginal Students in South African Higher Education -- Deficits that Cause Marginality -- The Mediation of Cognitive Modifiability -- The Profile of the Marginal Student -- A Perspective on Learning Disability -- Summing Up -- 3. Proposing an Alternative Paradigm -- Establishing the Model -- Affecting the Mental Act -- The Role of Social Cognition -- Implementing the Model -- 4. The Theoretical/Conceptual Framework -- Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Systems Theory -- Feuerstein's Mediated Learning Experience Theory -- Summing Up -- PART II: From Theory to Practice -- 5. The Peer Mentor Program |
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A Rationale for Program Development -- The Peer Mentor Program -- Fostering an Interpersonal Structure in Peer Mentor Groups -- Building a Mesosystem -- Engaging Institutional Decision-Makers in the Exosystem -- Peer Mentor Groups in the Macrosystem (the University Community) -- Conclusions -- 6. The Living-Learning Program -- Establishing the Program -- Creating Links with Institutional Decision-Makers -- Conclusions -- 7. The Co-curricular Learning Program -- The UFS Eco-Vehicle Project for Sustainable Energy -- Implementing Student Teams as Socially Cohesive Microsystems |
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Influencing Institutional Decisions and Resource Allocation -- The Macrosystem Appropriate for the Eco-Vehicle Program -- Conclusions -- PART III: Components of the Implementation -- 8. Applying MLE in Program Implementation -- The Parameters of MLE -- Formulating Responses According to the Parameters -- The MLE Parameters Reflected in Program Development -- Training in Concepts and Systems -- Summarizing -- 9. Assessing Student Needs -- The Role of Assessment -- Sources of Assessment -- The Paradigm of Dynamic Assessment -- Implementing Dynamic Assessment -- Theory and Structure of the LPAD |
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Training and Support Implications -- The Cultural Context of Dynamic Assessment and the LPAD -- Summing Up -- 10. Creating the Modifying Environment -- Focusing on the Context of Intervention -- Supporting Theoretical and Conceptual Formulations -- The Need to Shape the Environment -- The Process of Intervention -- The Conditions for Integrating Content and Process -- Framing MLE Interventions within the Context -- Arriving at the Shaping of Modifying Environments (SME) -- Justifying the Importance of Shaping Modifying Environments |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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11. Optimistic Alternatives for the Marginal Student in Higher Education |
| Subject |
University of the Free State
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| SUBJECT |
University of the Free State. fast (OCoLC)fst00762271 |
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Nontraditional college students -- Services for -- South Africa -- Bloemfontein
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College students with disabilities -- Services for -- South Africa -- Bloemfontein
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Marginality, Social -- South Africa -- Bloemfontein
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College students with disabilities -- Services for.
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Marginality, Social.
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South Africa -- Bloemfontein.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Falik, Louis H
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| ISBN |
9781000912944 |
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1000912949 |
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