Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education

by David; Miriam

• ISBN13: 9780415495417
• ISBN10: 0415495415
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of backgrounds within higher education.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. xi
List of contributors	p. xiii
Series editor's preface	p. xix
Acknowledgements	p. xxi
What are the issues?	p. 1
Introduction to the dilemmas of widening participation in higher education	p. 3
What does the research tell us?	p. 29
Policy contexts: differentiation, competition and policies for widening participation	p. 31
Access, participation and diversity questions in relation to different forms of post-compulsory further and higher education	p. 47
The importance of prior educational experiences	p. 47
The socio-cultural and learning experiences of working-class students in higher education	p. 62
Learners' transition from vocational education and training to higher education	p. 75
Seamlessness or separation: negotiating further and higher education boundaries in dual sector institutions	p. 88
Pedagogies for social diversity and difference	p. 95
Learning and teaching in two universities within the context of increasing student diversity: complexity, contradictions and challenges	p. 95
Keeping open the door to mathematically demanding programmes in further and higher education: a cultural model of value	p. 109
Outcomes in terms of age-based participation	p. 124
Diversity of experiences in higher education	p. 124
Educational decision-making, social networks and the new widening participation	p. 132
What are the overall implications for both policy and research?	p. 147
What are the overall findings and implications for evidence-based policies on fair access and widening participation?	p. 149
How do we improve learning by widening participation in higher education?: institutional practices and pedagogies for social diversity	p. 180
Appendices	p. 202
Universal Access and Dual Regimes of Further and Higher Education (the FurtherHigher Project)	p. 202
Widening Participation in Higher Education: A Quantitative Analysis	p. 206
Socio-Cultural and Learning Experiences of Working-Class Students	p. 210
Degrees of Success: Learners' Transitions from Vocational Education and Training to Higher Education	p. 214
Keeping Open the Door to Mathematically Demanding Programmes in Further and Higher Education	p. 217
Learning and Teaching for Social Diversity and Difference in Higher Education	p. 220
'Non-participation' in Higher Education: Decision-making as an Embedded Social Practice	p. 223
References	p. 228
Index	p. 249
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