The Right to Higher Education Beyond widening participation

• Main Author: Burke, Penny Jane
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2012; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Foundations and Futures of Education
• Subjects: Academic achievement; Access to education; College attendance; Education and state; Education Policy & Politics; Education, Higher; Education, Higher > Aims and objectives; Educational equalization > United States; Educational sociology; Equal opportunities; Higher Education; Participation; Right to education; Rights; Social participation; Sociology of Education; Tertiary education; United Kingdom; Universities; participation; inequalities; access; Good Life; Higher Educational Access; widening; Widening Participation Policy; Raphael Reed; Widening Participation Praxis; Contemporary Societies; fair; Vice Versa; Higher Educational Participation; Tr Ac; Widening Participation Discourses; Young Men; Student Subject Positioning; policy; Widening Participation; educational; discourses; Case Study Higher Education Institutions; ESRC Study; Widening Participation Work; Widening Participation Policy Agenda; Admissions Tutors; Social Science Research; Widening Participation Practitioners; Researching Widening Participation; hegemonic; Transformatory Research Praxis; Academic Language Support; Lo Ca; strategy; Cross-boundary Professionals

The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, raising questions about current strategies, po...