| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 223 pages) |
| Series |
Foundations and futures of education |
|
Foundations and futures of education.
|
| Contents |
Part 1 Contextualizing and theorizing widening participation 9 -- 1 Deconstructing the discourses of widening participation 11 -- 2 Re/conceptualizing widening participation 33 -- 3 Subjects of widening participation: Identity and subjectivity 53 -- Part 2 Methodologies and approaches 67 -- 4 Methodological approaches 69 -- 5 Researching widening participation 85 -- Part 3 Widening participation strategies and practices 99 -- 6 Raising aspirations: Challenging discourses of deficit 101 -- 7 Fair access: Challenging discourses of fairness and transparency 120 -- 8 Lifting barriers: Conceptualizing inequalities and misrecognitions 137 -- 9 WP professional subjectivities and practices 153 -- Part 4 Imagining the future 175 -- 10 Conceptualizing WP differently 177 -- 11 Beyond widening participation 189 |
| Summary |
"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, policies and approaches to widening participation. Presenting a comprehensive review and critique of contemporary widening participation policy and practice, Penny Burke interrogates the underpinning assumptions, values and perspectives shaping current concepts and understandings of widening participation. She draws on a range of perspectives within the field of the sociology of education - including feminist post-structuralism, critical pedagogy and policy sociology - to examine the ways in which wider societal inequalities and misrecognitions, which are related to difference and diversity, present particular challenges for the project to widen participation in higher education. In particular, the book: - focuses on the themes of difference and diversity to shed light on the operations of inequalities and the politics of access and participation both in terms of national and institutional policy and at the level of student and practitioner experience. - draws on the insights of the sociology of education to consider not only the patterns of under-representation in higher education but also the politics of mis-representation, critiquing key discourses of widening participation. - interrogates assumptions behind WP policy and discourse, including assumptions about education as an unassailable good and critically reflecting on what is meant by educational participation"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Educational equalization -- United States
|
|
Education, Higher.
|
|
College attendance.
|
|
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives.
|
|
Education and state.
|
|
Right to education.
|
|
Educational sociology.
|
|
higher education.
|
|
EDUCATION -- General.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
|
|
College attendance
|
|
Education and state
|
|
Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives
|
|
Education, Higher
|
|
Educational equalization
|
|
Educational sociology
|
|
Right to education
|
|
United States
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780203125571 |
|
0203125576 |
|
9781136450969 |
|
1136450963 |
|
1280685859 |
|
9781280685859 |
|
9786613662798 |
|
6613662798 |
|
