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Informationen zum Autor 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. 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 ...
