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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Section 1: Access to higher education
Chapter 1 – Global trends of access to and equity in postsecondary education
Chiao-Ling Chien, Patrick Montjouridès and Hendrik van der Pol
Chapter 2 – The stratification of opportunity in high participation systems (HPS) of higher education
Simon Marginson
Section 2: Theoretical perspectives
Chapter 3 – Capitals and habitus: a Bourdieusian framework for understanding transitions into higher education and student experiences
Ciaran Burke
Chapter 4 – Explaining inequality? Rational action theories of educational decision making
Ron Thompson
Chapter 5 – Student choices under uncertainty: bounded rationality and behavioural economics
Neil Harrison
Chapter 6 – Higher education: too risky a decision?
Malcolm Brynin
Chapter 7 - Widening access with success: using the capabilities approach to confront injustices
Merridy Wilson-Strydom
Chapter 8 – Reflexivity and agency: critical realist and Archerian analyses of access and participation
Peter Kahn
Section 3: Contemporary challenges
Chapter 9 – Framing and making of access policies: the case of Palestinian Arabs in higher education in Israel
Ayala Hendin, Dalia Ben-Rabi and Faisal Azaiza
Chapter 10 – Widening access in a vast country: opportunities and challenges in Australia
Ann Jardine
Chapter 11 – Accessing postgraduate study in the United States for African Americans: relating the roles of family, fictive kin, faculty, and student affairs practitioners
Carmen M. McCallum, Julie R. Posselt and Estefanía López
Chapter 12 – Participation and access in higher education in Russia: continuity and change of a positional advantage
Anna Smolentseva
Chapter 13 – Can Holistic and Contextualised Admission (HaCA) widen access at highly selective universities? Experiences from England and the United States
Anna Mountford-Zimdars
Chapter 14 – Diversifying admissions through top-down entrance examination reform in Japanese elite universities: what is happening on the ground?
Beverley Anne Yamamoto
Chapter 15 – The mobility imperative: English students and 'fair' access to international higher education
Rachel Brooks and Johanna Waters
Conclusion
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
Zusammenfassung
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.
