Policies to promote high participation in Higher Educations (HE) systems aim to deliver social justice and economic development through widening participation of under-represented groups. Degrees of Success provides a critical test of this through examination of participation and success of learners progressing to HE with a vocational background. Employing an original conceptual framework that combines the ideas of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu the authors analyse the various transitional frictions experienced by learners with VET backgrounds on their journeys into and through the HE system. The findings indicate that including students with vocational qualifications does lead to widening participation but that their modes of participation may not provide fair access and outcomes. In part this is due to the epistemic incompatibilities between higher and vocational education which remain unresolved despite constant VET qualification reform. This book, therefore, extends the debate about widening participation beyond metaphors of barriers to access to consider the epistemic and pedagogical challenges of increasing student heterogeneity in high participation HE systems. The analysis and policy suggestions therefore have relevance for all seeking to support students' HE learning journeys, and policy makers concerned with how best to utilise HE systems as means of furthering social mobility and justice.

Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and gender backgrounds within higher education, and for adults across the life course.

Edited by Miriam David, the Associate Director of the ESRC s highly successful Teaching and Learning Research Programme, with contributions from the seven projects on Widening Participation in Higher Education (viz Gill Crozier and Diane Reay; Chris Hockings; Alison Fuller and Sue Heath; Anna Vignoles; Geoff Hayward and Hubert Ertl; Julian Williams and Pauline Davis; Gareth Parry and Ann-Marie Bathmaker), this book provides clear and comprehensive research evidence on the policies, processes, pedagogies and practices of widening or increasing participation in higher education. This evidence is situated within the contexts of changing individual and institutional circumstances across the life course, and wider international transformations of higher education in relation to the global knowledge economy.

Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education also considers:

• the changing UK policy contexts of post-compulsory education;
• how socio-economically disadvantaged students raced and gendered fare through schools and into post-compulsory education;
• the kinds of academic and vocational courses, including Maths, undertaken;
• the changing forms of institutional and pedagogic practices within higher education;
• how adults view the role of higher education in their lives.

This book, based upon both qualitative studies and quantitative datasets, offers a rare insight into the overall implications for current and future policy and will provide a springboard for further research and debate. It will appeal both to policy-makers and practitioners, as well as students within higher education.

Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of socio-economic, ethnic/racial and gender backgrounds within higher education, and for adults across the life course.

Edited by Miriam David, the Associate Director of the ESRC s highly successful Teaching and Learning Research Programme, with contributions from the seven projects on Widening Participation in Higher Education (viz Gill Crozier and Diane Reay; Chris Hockings; Alison Fuller and Sue Heath; Anna Vignoles; Geoff Hayward and Hubert Ertl; Julian Williams and Pauline Davis; Gareth Parry and Ann-Marie Bathmaker), this book provides clear and comprehensive research evidence on the policies, processes, pedagogies and practices of widening or increasing participation in higher education. This evidence is situated within the contexts of changing individual and institutional circumstances across the life course, and wider international transformations of higher education in relation to the global knowledge economy.

Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education also considers:

• the changing UK policy contexts of post-compulsory education;
• how socio-economically disadvantaged students raced and gendered fare through schools and into post-compulsory education;
• the kinds of academic and vocational courses, including Maths, undertaken;
• the changing forms of institutional and pedagogic practices within higher education;
• how adults view the role of higher education in their lives.

This book, based upon both qualitative studies and quantitative datasets, offers a rare insight into the overall implications for current and future policy and will provide a springboard for further research and debate. It will appeal both to policy-makers and practitioners, as well as students within higher education.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1995 im Fachbereich Padagogik - Berufserziehung, Berufsbildung, Weiterbildung, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen (Unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Zusammenfassung: Ausgangspunkt der Arbeit ist die andauernde Kritik am Dualen System der Berufsausbildung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Vorwort, Kap. 1). Der tiefgreifende Wandel der Arbeitswelt - ausgelost vom anhaltenden Einzug der Mikroelektronik sowie der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie, vom Zusammenwachsen der internationalen Markte und von der betriebswirtschaftlich notwendigen, verstarkten Kundenorientierung - erfordert nach Ansicht der Kritiker des Dualen Systems eine Neuorientierung der beruflichen Ausbildung nicht nur in inhaltlicher, sondern vor allem auch in intentionaler und methodischer Hinsicht. Eine Reihe von Modellversuchen an berufsbildenden Schulen und/oder Ausbildungsbetrieben haben daher zum Ziel, die vielfach geforderte Vermittlung von Schlusselqualifikationen durch didaktische Konzepte wie Handlungsorientierung oder facherubergreifenden bzw. projektorientierten Unterricht zu erproben. Die Wurzeln dieser Konzepte lassen sich haufig in die Reformpadagogik zuruckverfolgen, eine erziehungswissenschaftliche Bewegung, die um die Jahrhundertwende in nahezu allen Landern Europas und Nordamerikas ahnliche Zielvorstellungen fur Erziehung und Bildung entwickelte. Vor diesem Hintergrund wird in der Diplomarbeit untersucht, inwieweit die Ideen der amerikanischen Reformpadagogin Helen Parkhurst den Unterricht unter den speziellen Rahmenbedingungen der kaufmannischen Berufsschule zu fordern und damit zu einer zukunftsorientierten Berufsausbildung beizutragen vermogen. Als erkenntnisleitende Axiomatik dient dabei der personalistische Ansatz nach Johannes Baumgardt (Kap. 1). Ausgehend von den darin getroffenen paradiginatischen und anthropologischen Grundannahmen wird Parkhursts Konzeption anhand der drei Dimensionen personale Selbstver