Higher Education and Social Justice

by Furlong, Andy; Cartmel, Fred

• ISBN13: 9780335223619
• ISBN10: 0335223613
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Open University Press

Summary

Is access to higher education really open to all?

Author Biography

Andy Furlong is Professor of Social Inclusion and Education and Fred Cartmel is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow. They have also co-authored Young People and Social Change 2/e for Open University Press (2006).

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Higher education and social justice	p. 1
Unequal access	p. 17
Reinforcing inequality through funding policies	p. 34
Fragmented contexts	p. 52
Changing pathways, altered experiences	p. 71
Differential rewards	p. 86
Building a socially just system of higher education	p. 104
Appendix: The West of Scotland study	p. 117
Notes	p. 119
References	p. 123
Index	p. 137
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