Affirmative Action Matters: Creating Opportunities for Students Around the World

ISBN-13: 9780415750127 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 222 str.

Laura Dudley Jenkins; Michele S. Moses

Opis

Affirmative action. Discrimination positive. Reservations. Quotas. Such policies aim to increase access to and equity within higher education. How do different national and social contexts affect how affirmative action policy is conceptualized, discussed, justified, and designed? Scholars from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, India, South Africa and the United States address this central question by seeking to understand how unique national contexts shape affirmative action for students in higher education around the world.

Spis treści

1. Diverse contexts and justifications for affirmative action  2. Brazil: Enhancing opportunity and justice through new affirmative action policies for black and mixed-race students  3. Bulgaria: Social engineering through admissions policies in a totalitarian society  4. China: Targetting ethnic minorities to achieve access and equity in higher education  5. France: Applying a territorial approach to voluntary affirmative action in elite institutions  6. India: Beginning a new debate on reserved admissions for castes, tribes and "Other Backward Classes"  7. South Africa: Affirming affirmative action through university alternate access programs  8. The United States: Changing the terms of access to higher education  9. Advancing access and equity in higher education

O autorze

Laura Dudley Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati and a faculty affiliate with the Asian Studies Program and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department.

Michele S. Moses is Associate Professor and Chair of the Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA