Enhancing the Quality and Outcomes of Disabled Students’ Learning in Higher Education
- Date: 5 Jun 2008
- Location/venue: University of Gloucestershire
Part of the 2007-8 Disability Equality Partnership (DEP) Research Seminar Series on the theme of inclusion.
‘Enhancing the Quality and Outcomes of Disabled Students’ Learning in Higher Education’
by Dr J Georgeson; Professor Mick Healey (Gloucestershire); Hazel Roberts (Gloucestershire); Dr Moira Peelo (Lancaster)
Morning presentations:
• Mick Healey and Hazel Roberts 'University disabled students’ experiences of learning, teaching and assessment'
• Jan Georgeson 'Different responses to difference: a tale of two departments'
After lunch:
• Moira Peelo
• Hazel Roberts and Jan Georgeson 'The role of identity in disabled students’ learning'
Presentations drew on an ESRC/TLRP project based at the University of Gloucestershire which ran from January 2003 to December 2007. It was a four year, multi-site project looking at the ways in which the HEs studied have put in place policies and practices in relation specifically to teaching, learning and assessment in recognition of their duties towards disabled students under the SENDA (Part IV) and subsequent legislation. In particular the project incorporated a small longitudinal study focussing on disabled students’ perceptions of teaching, learning and assessment over the course of three years. Presentations focused on institutional cultures and the student voice.