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Affirmative Action Matters - Creating opportunities for students around the world (Hardcover, New)
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Affirmative Action Matters - Creating opportunities for students around the world (Hardcover, New)
Series: International Studies in Higher Education
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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.
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