Social Inclusion and Higher Education

Informationen zum Autor Tehmina N Basit is Professor of Education and Director of the Institute for Education Policy Research at Staffordshire University. Her research interests include social justice, social inclusion, ethnicity, gender, and teacher education and professional development. Sally Tomlinson is Emeritus Professor of Education at Goldsmiths College, London University and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, England, a 'new' university dedicated to social inclusion. Her research is in the area of racial and social equity, and educational policy and politics. Klappentext This book is about the experiences of students in institutions of higher education from 'non-traditional' backgrounds with contributions from the UK, the USA and Australia which reveal that the issues surrounding the inclusion of 'non-traditional' students are broadly similar in different countries. Zusammenfassung Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about the experiences of students in institutions of higher education from 'non-traditional' backgrounds with contributions from the UK! the USA and Australia which reveal that the issues surrounding the inclusion of 'non-traditional' students are broadly similar in different countries.

Product details

• Authors: Tehmina N. (EDT)/ Tomlinson Basit
• Assisted by: Tehmina N Basit (Editor), Tehmina N (Business School Basit (Editor), Tehmina N. Basit (Editor), Sally Tomlinson (Editor), Sally (Department of Education Tomlinson (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2012
• EAN: 9781847427977
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-797-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system