Accommodating Marginalized Students in Higher Education

Auteur

WP Wahl is Director of Student Life at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa.

Louis H. Falik is Professor Emeritus of Counseling at San Francisco State University, USA.

Texte du rabat

This book defines and examines the needs of the marginalized student and presents a theoretically grounded model to guide institutions of higher education toward developing new and more effective programmatic responses.

Contenu

Part I: Theoretical Foundations 1. Setting the Context 2. The Marginal Student in the Higher Educational Setting 3. Proposing an Alternative Paradigm 4. The Theoretical/Conceptual Framework Part II: From Theory to Practice 5. The Peer Mentor Program 6. The Living-Learning Program 7. The Co-curricular Learning Program Part III: Components of the Implementation 8. Applying MLE in Program Implementation 9. Assessing Student Needs 10. Creating the Modifying Environment 11. Optimistic Alternatives for the Marginal Student in Higher Education Appendix