Affirmative Action Matters : Creating opportunities for students around the world

ISBN-13: 9780415508070 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 242 str.

Laura Dudley Jenkins; Michele S. Moses

Opis

Affirmative Action Matters focuses specifically on affirmative action policies in higher education admissions, the sphere that has been the most controversial in many of the nations that have such policies. It brings together distinguished scholars from diverse nations to examine and discuss the historical, political and philosophical contexts of affirmative action and clarify policy developments to further the meaningful equality of educational opportunity. This unique volume includes both well established and emerging policies from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, policies which developed under a variety of political systems and target a range of underrepresented groups, based on race, ethnicity, gender, class, social background, or region.

Accessible and thought provoking case studies of affirmative action demonstrate that such policies are expanding to different countries and target populations. While some countries, such as India, have affirmative action policies that predate those in the United States, affirmative action is a recent development in countries such as Brazil and France.

Legal or political pressures to move away from explicitly race-based policies in several countries have complicated affirmative action and make this assessment of international alternatives particularly timely. New or newly modified policies target a variety of disadvantaged groups, based on geography, class, or caste, in addition to race or sex. International scholars in six countries spanning five continents offer insights into their own countries experiences to examine the implications of policy shifts from race toward other categories of disadvantage, to consider best practices in student admission policies, and to assess the future of affirmative action."

Spis treści

1. National vicissitudes in higher education affirmative action policies Michele S. Moses and Laura Dudley Jenkins  2. Assessing affirmative action programs on six continents Michele S. Moses, Laura Dudley Jenkins, Christina Paguyo and Laurel Wei  3. India: Beginning a new debate on reserved admissions for castes, tribes and "Other Backward Classes" Kavita A. Sharma and Laura Dudley Jenkins  4. Bulgaria: Social justice and privileged access to higher education in a totalitarian society, 1944-1989 Pepka Boyadjieva  5. The United States: The changing context of access to higher education Patricia Marin  6. South Africa: Affirming affirmative action through university alternate access programs Rudi Kimmie and Laura Dudley Jenkins  7. Brazil: Enhancing opportunity and justice through new affirmative action policies for black and mixed-race students Sandra Regina Sales and Michele S. Moses  8. France: Affirmative action in French higher education —squaring the circle Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin  9. Affirmative action matters: Social justice in the era of diversity Laura Dudley Jenkins and Michele S. Moses