The Right to Higher Education : Beyond widening participation

ISBN-13: 9780415568234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Penny Jane Burke

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'The Right to Higher Education not only provides critiques of current policy and practice, but goes further to consider how widening participation could provide a focus for positive renewal and transformation of universities. As such, this volume is not only of value to those involved in widening participation, but also for those interested in the development of the sector as a whole.' - Annette Hayton for the London Review of Education, University of Bath

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Penny Jane Burke is Professor of Education, Roehampton University, UK.