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Another Way on? A Search for an Alternative Path into Learning for People with a Learning Difficulty or Disability
Author(s) -
Bevan Robert
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
british journal of special education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1467-8578
pISSN - 0952-3383
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8527.00291
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , learning disability , psychology , action (physics) , pedagogy , mathematics education , action research , assistive technology , medical education , developmental psychology , computer science , medicine , physics , programming language , human–computer interaction , quantum mechanics
This article explores alternative routes into further education, and the subsequent attainment of qualifications, for people who experience barriers as a result of a learning difficulty and/or disability. The two distinct avenues considered at the outset were the use of information technology (supported, where necessary, by adaptive technology) and the implementation of more flexible approaches to learning. Robert Bevan undertook the research reported here in a college in the East Midlands as part fulfilment of his MA (Action Inquiry) at Nottingham Trent University. As he engaged in more depth with students and their views via questionnaire and interview, this researcher began to construct a more subtle and student‐centred map of the possibilities.