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Teaching, Learning
& Study Skills
A Guide for Tutors
Tom Burns & Sandra Sinfield
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TEACHING, LEARNING AND
STUDY SKILLS
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TEACHING, LEARNING AND
STUDY SKILLS
A GUIDE FOR
TUTORS
Tom Burns and Sandra Sinfield
SAGE Publications
London ( Thousand Oaks ( New Delhi
2004 Tom Burns and Sandra Sinfield
First published 2004
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Contents
List of resources x
1 Introduction and how to use this book 1
Coverage 1
e 1
Background 1
Study skills, teaching and learning development 2
How to use this book 3
Essential Study Skills 4
Finally 5
2 University teaching, widening participation and
study skills 6
Coverage 6
Introduction – but is it ‘education’? 6
What is happening to university education? 7
Management generation of strategy 7
Widening participation 8
Changing H