Negotiating access to higher education : the discourse of selectivity and equity
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Negotiating access to higher education : the discourse of selectivity and equity
（SRHE and Open University Press imprint / general editor, Heather Eggins）
Society for Research into Higher Education : Open University Press, 1997
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Description
This study analyzes recent changes in access to higher education, and the accompanying debates. It examines how discursive struggles over entitlement, selectivity and equity determine who can be a student, and what varying understandings inform admissions policies and practices.
Table of Contents
- Access to higher education in the late-20th century
- policy, power and discourse
- the discourse of access - the legitimation of selectivity
- number crunching - the discourse of statistics
- alternative students?
- coneptualizations of difference
- institutional rhetorics and realities
- goalkeeping - inclusionary an dexclusionary discourses and practices
- student voices - alternative routes, alternative identities.
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