Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education
by David, Miriam; Bathmaker, Ann-Marie; Crozier, Gill; Davis, PaulinePub. Date: 2009-09-18
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
This book presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of backgrounds within higher education.
Table of Contents
| Selected Contents | |
| Series Preface | |
| What are the issues? | |
| Introduction to the dilemmas of Widening Participation in Higher Education | |
| What does the research tell us? | |
| Policy contexts: Differentiation, competition and policies for widening participation | |
| Access, participation and diversity questions in relation to different forms of post-compulsory further and higher education (FHEs) arranged in 4 sections | |
| The importance of prior educational experiences | |
| The Socio-Cultural and Learning Experiences of Working Class Students in Higher Education | |
| Learners' transition from Vocational Education and Training to Higher Education | |
| Ann-Marie Bathmaker: Seamlessness or separation: negotiating further and higher education boundaries in dual sector institutions | |
| Pedagogies for social diversity and difference (arranged in two sections) | |
| Learning and teaching in two universities within the context of increasing student diversity - complexity, contradictions and challenges | |
| Keeping open the door to mathematically-demanding programmes in further and higher education: a cultural model of value | |
| Outcomes in terms of age-based participation (arranged in two sections) | |
| Diversity of experiences in higher education | |
| Educational decision-making, social networks and the new widening participation | |
| What are the overall implications both for policy and for research? | |
| (with contributions from Geoff Hayward and Hubert Ertl, section 3): Conclusions: What are the overall findings and implications for evidence-based policies on fair access and widening participation? | |
| (with contributions from Gill Crozier, Geoff Hayward and Hubert Ertl, Julian Williams and colleagues, and Chris Hockings): How do we improve learning by widening participation in HE: institutional practices and pedagogies for social diversity? | |
| Appendices On Methodologies | |
| Gareth Parry | |
| Anna Vignoles | |
| Gill Crozier | |
| Geoff Hayward | |
| Julian Williams | |
| Chris Hockings | |
| Alison Fuller | |
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