Improving learning by widening participation in higher education / edited by Miriam E. David ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

David, Miriam E.

Series:

Improving Learning

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

People with social disabilities--Education (Higher)--Great Britain.

People with social disabilities.

Educational equalization--Great Britain.

Educational equalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Vign

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Part I: What are the issues?; Chapter 1: Introduction to the dilemmas of widening participation in higher education; Part II: What does the research tell us?; Chapter 2: Policy contexts: Differentiation, competition and policies for widening participation; Chapter 3: Section 1 Access, participation and diversity questions in relation to different forms of post-compulsory further and higher education: The importance of prior educational experiences

Chapter 3: Section 2 Access, participation and diversity questions in relation to different forms of post-compulsory further and higher education: The socio-cultural and learning experiences of workinChapter 3: Section 3 Access, participation and diversity questions in relation to different forms of post-compulsory further and higher education: Learners' transition from vocational education and tr

Chapter 3: Section 4 Access, participation and diversity questions in relation to different forms of post-compulsory further and higher education: Seamlessness or separation: negotiating further and hChapter 4: Section 1 Pedagogies for social diversity and difference: Learning and teaching in two universities within the context of increasing student diversity: complexity, contradictions and challe; Chapter 4: Section 2 Pedagogies for social diversity and difference: Keeping open the door to mathematically demanding programmes in further and higher education: a cultural model of value

Chapter 5: Section 1 Outcomes in terms of age-based participation: Diversity of experiences in higher educationChapter 5: Section 2 Outcomes in terms of age-based participation: Educational decision-making, social networks and the new widening participation; Part III: What are the overall implications for both policy and research?; Chapter 6: What are the overall findings and implications for evidence-based policies on fair access and widening participation?

Chapter 7: How do we improve learning by widening participation in higher education?: Institutional practices and pedagogies for social diversityAppendix 1: Universal Access and Dual Regimes of Further and Higher Education (the FurtherHigher Project); Appendix 2: Widening Participation in Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis; Appendix 3: Socio-Cultural and Learning Experiences of Working-Class Students; Appendix 4: Degrees of Success: Learners' Transitions from Vocational Education and Training to Higher Education

Appendix 5: Keeping Open the Door to Mathematically Demanding Programmes in Further and Higher Education

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-28268-4

1-282-31533-1

9786612315336

0-203-86797-1

9780203867976

OCLC:

466442937