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This is a “starter book” for preparing successful Two-Year College (TYC) faculty. In this slim tome graduate students, as well as TYC and four-year college faculty, articulate their experience and expertise with the goal of improving and expanding graduate students’ career dreams and intellectual preparation.

Our authors write candidly and knowledgeably about TYC teaching and working life. They show graduate students the array of opportunities and challenges for beginning and pursuing successful and enjoyable TYC teaching careers.

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National school systems have been significantly conditioned by two global trends since the end of the 20th century. On the one hand, there is a shift towards inclusive education that aims at accommodating schooling to all pupils' learning conditions. On the other hand, there is a rapidly growing focus on standards, emphasising goal achievement for all pupils as well. In this field of tension, the profession of special educators has been central, as it has traditionally focused on students for whom instruction in regular classrooms lacks appropriate educational solutions yet still expects...

This unique book describes literacy programs that take place in contemporary workplaces and explores their consequences for the employees (especially the managers), the organizations, and society as a whole. Employing a critical sociological perspective, Boyle argues that literacy education in the workplace has as much to do with organizational legitimacy and managerial ideology as with illiterate workers. Her analysis reveals that such programs can be understood as having a range of consequences: Not only do they increase skills, these programs improve work attitudes and show employer...