Access to Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges

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Access to Higher Education rethinks traditional answers to questions of participation in the context of the global financial crisis, population changes and increasing social inequality.

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How do we understand and explain who has access to higher education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Access to Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges seeks to update thinking on these questions, combining new voices and emerging perspectives with established writers in the field. This pioneering text highlights the contribution of social theory to issues of access to education, with chapters introducing and drawing on the works of key interdisciplinary thinkers including Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Archer, Amartya Sen and Herbert Simon. It then moves to examines how theoretical perspectives can be applied to the contemporary challenges of forging more equal access, with examples drawn from a wide range of contexts, including the UK, the US, Australia, South Africa and Japan. Global in scope, this book documents the shared nature of the access challenge in a period when higher education is growing rapidly, but inequalities continue to be stark. It concludes by proposing a new direction for research and a reassertion of the role of the researcher as a social activist for disconnected and disadvantaged groups, equipped with the thinking tools needed to move the agenda forward.Access to Higher Education is a rigorous text for the global research community, with relevance to policymakers, practitioners and postgraduate students interested in social justice and social policy. It provides those with an academic interest in access and a commitment to enhancing policy with theoretical and practical ideas for moving the access agenda forward in their institutional, regional or national contexts.

Author Biography

Anna Mountford-Zimdars is a senior lecturer in Higher Education and Head of Research at King's Learning Institute, King's College London, UK.Neil Harrison is a senior lecturer in the Department of Education at the University of the West of England, UK.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Access to higher education Chapter 1 – Global trends of access to and equity in postsecondary educationChiao-Ling Chien, Patrick Montjouridès and Hendrik van der PolChapter 2 – The stratification of opportunity in high participation systems (HPS) of higher educationSimon Marginson Section 2: Theoretical perspectivesChapter 3 – Capitals and habitus: a Bourdieusian framework for understanding transitions into higher education and student experiencesCiaran Burke Chapter 4 – Explaining inequality? Rational action theories of educational decision makingRon Thompson Chapter 5 – Student choices under uncertainty: bounded rationality and behavioural economicsNeil HarrisonChapter 6 – Higher education: too risky a decision?Malcolm BryninChapter 7 - Widening access with success: using the capabilities approach to confront injusticesMerridy Wilson-StrydomChapter 8 – Reflexivity and agency: critical realist and Archerian analyses of access and participationPeter KahnSection 3: Contemporary challenges Chapter 9 – Framing and making of access policies: the case of Palestinian Arabs in higher education in IsraelAyala Hendin, Dalia Ben-Rabi and Faisal Azaiza Chapter 10 – Widening access in a vast country: opportunities and challenges in AustraliaAnn JardineChapter 11 – Accessing postgraduate study in the United States for African Americans: relating the roles of family, fictive kin, faculty, and student affairs practitionersCarmen M. McCallum, Julie R. Posselt and Estefanía LópezChapter 12 – Participation and access in higher education in Russia: continuity and change of a positional advantageAnna Smolentseva Chapter 13 – Can Holistic and Contextualised Admission (HaCA) widen access at highly selective universities? Experiences from England and the United StatesAnna Mountford-ZimdarsChapter 14 – Diversifying admissions through top-down entrance examination reform in Japanese elite universities: what is happening on the ground?Beverley Anne YamamotoChapter 15 – The mobility imperative: English students and 'fair' access to international higher educationRachel Brooks and Johanna WatersConclusion

Details ISBN1138924113 Short Title ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION Language English ISBN-10 1138924113 ISBN-13 9781138924116 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Anna Mountford-Zimdars Affiliation Liverpool Hope University, UK Year 2016 DEWEY 378 Author Neil Harrison Publication Date 2016-11-18 Subtitle Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges UK Release Date 2016-11-18 AU Release Date 2016-11-18 NZ Release Date 2016-11-18 Illustrations 4 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white Pages 254 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Series Research into Higher Education Alternative 9781138924109 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this

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