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Handbook for Personal Tutors by Sue Wheeler & Jan Birtle
Explores the complexity of personal tutoring at higher education level. The handbook covers counselling and listening skills, the institutional context and problems in tutoring adolescent, mature and postgraduate students, as well as those from culturally different backgrounds.This is a sourcebook for personal tutors working in higher education, whether in old or new universities or in colleges of higher education. The authors are concerned to increase the knowledge base of personal tutors in order to help them become more effective with students while, at the same time, enhancing their own experience and job satisfaction. This handbook draws on a wide range of examples through which the complexities of personal tutoring are explored. In particular, it covers the necessary counselling and listening skills, the institutional context, the special problems of adolescent, mature and postgraduate students, and of those from culturally different backgrounds. The emphasis is on practical guidance, and the authors highlight the need for time, training and reflective thought. |
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| Author(s) : Sue Wheeler | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0335099548 | ISBN-13 : 9780335099542 |
| RRP : £24.99 | Best available price : £ / $ |
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Product Details:
Series Title : Society for Research into Higher Education
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 01/10/1993
Publisher : Open University Press
Page Length : 192mm
Page Size : 229mm