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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.
Theory of Change speaks to those looking for an academically
rigorous discussion of the origins and debates around this approach
in Higher Education. Melding together robust academic research with
examples of practice, the book provides specific applications of
using a Theory of Change across key stages of the student life
cycle. The Theory of Change underpinning this book is that national
and international practitioners, policy makers, higher education
professionals, students and academic faculty will increase
awareness and ability to use a Theory of Change in their own work.
This, in turn, will mainstream the use which will lead to better
interventions and practices. In the field of access and
participation in higher education, it will ultimately lead to more
disadvantaged students entering and successfully progressing from
higher education. This book helps to establish a common lexicon
around a Theory of Change approach and enable discussion of
demonstrable, meaningful reflections on the 'change' work has on
inequalities in higher education access and participation.
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.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Who gets into elite universities, how and why? What are places like
Harvard in the United States or Cambridge in England looking for
when they admit undergraduate students? What qualities do selectors
value and how do they decide between many applicants with often
stellar attainment records? And, are we all better off because of
who these elite universities admit? Meritocracy and the University
provides an insight into the world of university admissions. Based
on interviews with professional admissions staff and academic
faculty members who select students, the book explains what
selectors value and how they make decisions. By shining a light on
the world of university admissions in England and in the United
States, readers are invited to reflect on the similarities and
differences in who selects and how selection is done, the purpose
and mission of universities, and the challenges universities face
in building fair admissions processes when earlier opportunities to
shine in education are unequally distributed.
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open
Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.
Who gets into elite universities, how and why? What are places like
Harvard in the United States or Cambridge in England looking for
when they admit undergraduate students? What qualities do selectors
value and how do they decide between many applicants with often
stellar attainment records? And, are we all better off because of
who these elite universities admit? Meritocracy and the University
provides an insight into the world of university admissions. Based
on interviews with professional admissions staff and academic
faculty members who select students, the book explains what
selectors value and how they make decisions. By shining a light on
the world of university admissions in England and in the United
States, readers are invited to reflect on the similarities and
differences in who selects and how selection is done, the purpose
and mission of universities, and the challenges universities face
in building fair admissions processes when earlier opportunities to
shine in education are unequally distributed.
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