Enhancing the Freedom to Flourish in Higher Education : Participation, Equality and Capabilities Paperback / softback
by Talita M. L. Calitz
Part of the Research into Higher Education series
Paperback / softback
Description
Persistent educational, economic and social inequalities perpetuate unequal participation in higher education for a significant number of students in both developing and developed contexts, offering these students fewer opportunities to convert academic resources into equal participation.
Enhancing the Freedom to Flourish in Higher Education explores the insight that student narratives can offer to the debate surrounding the complex reasons of why some students flourish at university while others are marginalised socially and academically.
Proposing a new model of equal participation that draws not only on international comparisons, but is also embedded in the experiences of students, the book offers practical suggestions on how to enhance opportunities for equal participation. Using South Africa as a case study, the book tracks the experiences of eight undergraduate students whose narratives illuminate the structural inequalities affecting participation in higher education.
Despite the political, economic and academic factors that lead to diminished participation, the book foregrounds the resources that students used to negotiate obstacles and grounds these individual narratives in broader global debates around justice, widening participation and equality in higher education. Enhancing the Freedom to Flourish in Higher Education brings critical social theory to the problem of unequal participation so as to challenge the invisible and implicit forms of inequality found within student narratives.
It will appeal to lecturers and tutors, practitioners based in student affairs, and policy makers, as well as postgraduate students.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:194 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/07/2018
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- ISBN:9781138633834
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Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:194 pages, 4 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/07/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138633834
