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Access to Higher Education - Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges (Paperback)
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Access to Higher Education - Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges (Paperback)
Series: Research into Higher Education
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How do we understand and explain who has access to higher
education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of
inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers
and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Access to
Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary
challenges seeks to update thinking on these questions, combining
new voices and emerging perspectives with established writers in
the field. This pioneering text highlights the contribution of
social theory to issues of access to education, with chapters
introducing and drawing on the works of key interdisciplinary
thinkers including Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Archer, Amartya Sen
and Herbert Simon. It then moves to examines how theoretical
perspectives can be applied to the contemporary challenges of
forging more equal access, with examples drawn from a wide range of
contexts, including the UK, the US, Australia, South Africa and
Japan. Global in scope, this book documents the shared nature of
the access challenge in a period when higher education is growing
rapidly, but inequalities continue to be stark. It concludes by
proposing a new direction for research and a reassertion of the
role of the researcher as a social activist for disconnected and
disadvantaged groups, equipped with the thinking tools needed to
move the agenda forward. Access to Higher Education is a rigorous
text for the global research community, with relevance to
policymakers, practitioners and postgraduate students interested in
social justice and social policy. It provides those with an
academic interest in access and a commitment to enhancing policy
with theoretical and practical ideas for moving the access agenda
forward in their institutional, regional or national contexts.
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