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Drawing on examples from nine countries across five continents,
this book offers anyone interested in the future of higher
education the opportunity to understand how communities become
marginalised and how this impacts on their access to learning and
their ability to thrive as students. Focusing on groups that suffer
directly through discriminatory practices or indirectly through
distinct forms of sociocultural disadvantage, this book brings to
light communities about which little has been written and where
research efforts are in their relative infancy. Each chapter
documents the experiences of a group and provides insights that
have a wider reach and gives voice to those that are often unheard.
The book concludes with a new conceptualisation of the social
forces that lead to marginalisation in higher education. This
cutting-edge book is a must read for higher education researchers,
policy makers, and students interested in access to education,
sociology of education, development studies, and cultural studies.
Drawing on examples from nine countries across five continents,
this book offers anyone interested in the future of higher
education the opportunity to understand how communities become
marginalised and how this impacts on their access to learning and
their ability to thrive as students. Focusing on groups that suffer
directly through discriminatory practices or indirectly through
distinct forms of sociocultural disadvantage, this book brings to
light communities about which little has been written and where
research efforts are in their relative infancy. Each chapter
documents the experiences of a group and provides insights that
have a wider reach and gives voice to those that are often unheard.
The book concludes with a new conceptualisation of the social
forces that lead to marginalisation in higher education. This
cutting-edge book is a must read for higher education researchers,
policy makers, and students interested in access to education,
sociology of education, development studies, and cultural studies.
Social mobility needs a re-boot. The narrow, economistic way of
measuring it favoured by politicians and academics is unsustainable
and is contributing to rising inequality. This timely book provides
an alternative, original vision of social mobility and a route-map
to achieving it. It examines how the term 'social mobility'
structures what success means and the impact that has on society.
Providing a new holistic approach that encompasses education, the
economy and politics, Atherton recasts the relationship with
employers, embracing radical opportunities provided by technology
and rethinking what higher education means. He also goes beyond
employment to incorporate progress in non-work areas of life. Based
on the need to improve well-being, not just income or occupation,
the book addresses one of the key issues facing 21st century
society in a new way and provides valuable insights for
policymakers and academics.
Social mobility needs a re-boot. The narrow, economistic way of
measuring it favoured by politicians and academics is unsustainable
and is contributing to rising inequality. This timely book provides
an alternative, original vision of social mobility and a route-map
to achieving it. It examines how the term 'social mobility'
structures what success means and the impact that has on society.
Providing a new holistic approach that encompasses education, the
economy and politics, Atherton recasts the relationship with
employers, embracing radical opportunities provided by technology
and rethinking what higher education means. He also goes beyond
employment to incorporate progress in non-work areas of life. Based
on the need to improve well-being, not just income or occupation,
the book addresses one of the key issues facing 21st century
society in a new way and provides valuable insights for
policymakers and academics.
This book is the first systematic attempt to examine one of the
biggest challenges facing universities and society in the 21st
century: how do we create opportunities to allow people from all
social backgrounds to benefit from higher education? It examines
how policymakers, higher education institutions and civil society
organisations are meeting this challenge across the globe. Each
chapter focuses on one of 12 countries, including the economically
powerful US and Germany, developing nations from Africa and South
America and the new higher education 'superpowers' of China and
India. Access to Higher Education shows that across these different
nations inequalities in higher education participation are common,
but their nature differs. It argues for a new, 'nationhood' based
approach to understanding why these differences exist.
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