The right to higher education : beyond widening participation
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The right to higher education : beyond widening participation
(Foundations and futures of education)
Routledge, 2012
- : hbk
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, raising questions about current strategies, policies and approaches to widening participation.
Presenting a comprehensive review and critique of contemporary widening participation policy and practice, Penny Jane Burke interrogates the underpinning assumptions, values and perspectives shaping current concepts and understandings of widening participation. She draws on a range of perspectives within the field of the sociology of education - including feminist post-structuralism, critical pedagogy and policy sociology - to examine the ways in which wider societal inequalities and misrecognitions, which are related to difference and diversity, present particular challenges for the project to widen participation in higher education. In particular, the book:
focuses on the themes of difference and diversity to shed light on the operations of inequalities and the politics of access and participation both in terms of national and institutional policy and at the level of student and practitioner experience.
draws on the insights of the sociology of education to consider not only the patterns of under-representation in higher education but also the politics of mis-representation, critiquing key discourses of widening participation.
interrogates assumptions behind WP policy and practice, including assumptions about education being an unassailable good
provides an analysis of the accounts and perspectives of students, practitioners and policy-makers through in-depth interviews, observations and reflective journal entries.
offers insights for future developments in the policy, practice and strategies for widening participation
The book will be of great use to all those working in and researching Higher Education.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part One: Contextualising Widening Participation 1. Deconstructing the Discourses of Widening Participation 2. Re/conceptualizing Widening Participation 3. Subjects of Widening Participation: identity and subjectivity Part Two: Methodologies and Approaches 4. Methodological approaches 5. Researching widening participation Part Three: Widening Participation Strategies and Practices 6. Raising aspirations: challenging discourses of deficit 7. Fair Access: challenging discourses of fairness and transparency 8. Lifting Barriers: conceptualising inequalities and misrecognitions 9. Professional subjectivities and practices Part Four: Imagining the future 10. Conceptualising WP differently 11. Beyong Widening Participation
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