Helping Students with Study Problems - Softcover

Peelo M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0335193072 ISBN 13: 9780335193073

Publisher: Open University Pres, 1994

Synopsis

Helping Students with Study Problems is written for academic staff, counsellors, personal tutors and anyone involved in helping individual students overcome academic challenges and problems. It examines the experience of 'getting stuck' academically and how students can be helped. It demystifies the process of helping undergraduates with work problems by translating theory and practice into accessible language. Moira Peelo's own practice is in a university counselling service, and she has developed ways of working which borrow from counselling theory and educational research as well as drawing on her own research into students' experience of degree-level education.She takes account of the wider social setting of universities and their impact on students' work and study problems. Universities are societies with their own hidden rules and sub-groups into which students must fit if they are to succeed academically. Students also bring to study all their prior experience, their expectations and hopes, and all these have an effect on learning. Theoretically, therefore, this book is based on the recognition that adults' learning and academic development come from emotional as well as intellectual growth.

About this title

About the Author

Moira Peelo combines study counselling at Lancaster University with research in the Department of Applied Social Science.

Review

"...the more I read, the more I wanted to read...This is abook that maintains the right balance between practice and theory...Irecommend Helping Students with Study Problems to anyone who is interested in helping students to learn more effectively. The book is an excellent starting point for those thinking of setting up a studycounselling/advice service. It should be read by all new tutors who havenot had experience in dealing with individual students and their study problems." - British Journal of Educational Psychology"This is a book that fulfils the promise of its title." - Journal of Vocational Education and Training

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Pres
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335193072
• ISBN 13: 9780335193073
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 135