| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Research into higher education |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of abbreviations; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Inequality in higher education; Inequality and the lives of students; Mapping unequal participation in international higher education; Overview of inequality in international higher education; Inequality and higher education; Inequality and higher education in the global South; Inequality, massification and South African higher education; Trade-offs and resources; The dysfunctional public school system |
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Race, institutional demographics and transformationIndividual deficit or structural inequality?; Researching inequality and student lives; Navigating the book chapters; 2 Structures of unequal participation; Structural inequality in global higher education; Structural inequality in South African higher education; The deficit approach, resources and massification; The deficit approach and South African higher education; A deficit approach and academic provision; Teaching and learning constraints; Academic support programmes; Resisting a deficit approach; Structural relations of power |
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Recognising student resources and agencyThe intersection of race, gender, class and participation; Conclusion; 3 The capability approach and inequality in higher education; The capability approach and structural injustice; A capability approach to higher education research; A capability critique of neoliberal higher education; Capability framework; Capabilities and functionings; Education as freedom; Democratic participation; Agency; Conversion factors; Adaptive preference; Well-being; Freire and education as freedom; Resisting the banking system; Fraser and the capability approach |
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RedistributionRecognition; Representation; Conceptual framework for narrative analysis; 4 Introducing student narratives; Listening to student experiences; Introducing the participants; Student experiences at school; Inequality and South African schooling; Resources and recognition at school; Developing aspirations; School and identity; Family resources and aspirations; Summary of themes; 5 Structural constraints to participation; Individualising failure; Uncritical engagement with knowledge; Lack of participation in decision-making; Alienation from lecturers; Misrecognition |
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Transformation and structural constraints6 Student agency in higher education; Enabling affiliation with lecturers; Enabling affiliation with peers; Creating platforms for student voice; Distributing access to knowledge; Recognising student capabilities; Transformation and student agency; 7 Capabilities for equal participation; From exclusion to capability development?; Designing capability praxis; Resources and pedagogy; Capabilities for equal participation in pedagogy; Practical reason; Critical literacies; Student research; Deliberative participation; Critical affiliation |
| Summary |
Persistent educational, economic and social inequalities perpetuate unequal participation in higher education for a significant number of students in both developing and developed contexts, offering these students fewer opportunities to convert academic resources into equal participation. Enhancing the Freedom to Flourish in Higher Education explores the insight that student narratives can offer to the debate surrounding the complex reasons of why some students flourish at university while others are marginalised socially and academically. Proposing a new model of equal participation that draws not only on international comparisons, but is also embedded in the experiences of students, the book offers practical suggestions on how to enhance opportunities for equal participation. Using South Africa as a case study, the book tracks the experiences of eight undergraduate students whose narratives illuminate the structural inequalities affecting participation in higher education. Despite the political, economic and academic factors that lead to diminished participation, the book foregrounds the resources that students used to negotiate obstacles and grounds these individual narratives in broader global debates around justice, widening participation and equality in higher education. Enhancing the Freedom to Flourish in Higher Education brings critical social theory to the problem of unequal participation so as to challenge the invisible and implicit forms of inequality found within student narratives. It will appeal to lecturers and tutors, practitioners based in student affairs, and policy makers, as well as postgraduate students |
| Notes |
Chapter 1: Inequality in Higher Education Chapter 2: Structures of Unequal Participation Chapter 3: The Capability Approach and Inequality in Higher Education Chapter 4: Introducing Student Narratives Chapter 5: Structural Constraints to Participation Chapter 6: Student Agency in Higher Education Chapter 7: Capabilities for Equal Participation Chapter 8: Creating Just Universities |
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Educational equalization -- Cross-cultural studies
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Universities and colleges -- Admission -- Cross-cultural studies
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People with social disabilities -- Education (Higher) -- Cross-cultural studies
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Academic achievement -- Social aspects -- Cross-cultural studies
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Capabilities.
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Equality.
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Expanding.
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Flourish.
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Freedom.
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Higher Education.
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Participation.
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Research.
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Research into Higher Education.
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SRHE.
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Talita Calitz.
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Academic achievement -- Social aspects
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Educational equalization
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People with social disabilities -- Education (Higher)
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Universities and colleges -- Admission
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Cross-cultural studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351800464 |
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1351800469 |
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9781351800457 |
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1351800450 |
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9781351800471 |
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1351800477 |
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9781315207070 |
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1315207079 |
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