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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning - A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma (Paperback)
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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning - A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the
experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education.
The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher
Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more
about determination by students to alter their identities and
career opportunities than meeting narrow performative criteria of
financial targets. Chapters explore students' struggles with
institutional and social structures in the current political and
socio-economic climate, before identifying how the transformation
of their learner identities is facilitated in the courses by
collaborative cultures and supportive tutors. The book addresses a
research gap in knowledge about students' and tutors' experiences
of Access to Higher Education courses, presenting a broad
perspective on the importance and difficulties of such courses
through listening to the voices of students and tutors undertaking
a variety of Access to HE pathways. The authors argue that despite
success on their courses benefiting the national economy as well as
students individually, the social and financial costs of continuing
education is almost entirely shifted onto students' shoulders by
policymakers. Despite the costs, students can still see Access to
HE as a chance to improve their lives, reflecting the neoliberal
discourse of personal responsibility and risk embedded in broader
national social and policy discourses. Improving Opportunities to
Engage in Learning will be of great interest to researchers,
academics and postgraduate students in the fields of further and
higher education, widening participation, social justice and
sociology of education, and education policy and politics.
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