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Affirmative Action Matters: Creating opportunities for students around the world book cover

1st Edition

Affirmative Action Matters Creating opportunities for students around the world

Edited By Laura Dudley JENKINS, Michele S Moses Copyright 2014
242 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Affirmative action. Discrimination positive. Reservations. Quotas. Such policies aim to increase access to and equity within higher education. How do different national and social contexts affect how affirmative action policy is conceptualized, discussed, justified, and designed? Scholars from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, India, South Africa and the United States address this central question... Read more

1. Diverse contexts and justifications for affirmative action Michele S. Moses, Laura Dudley Jenkins  2. Brazil: Enhancing opportunity and justice through new affirmative action policies for black and mixed-race students Sandra Sales, Michele S.  3. Bulgaria: Social engineering through admissions policies in a totalitarian society Pepka Boyadjieva  4. China: Targetting ethnic minorities to achieve access and equity in higher education Zhiyong Zhu  5. France: Applying a territorial approach to voluntary affirmative action in elite institutions Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin  6. India: Beginning a new debate on reserved admissions for castes, tribes and "Other Backward Classes" Kavita A. Sharma, Laura Dudley Jenkins  7. South Africa: Affirming affirmative action through university alternate access programs Rudi Kimmie  8. The United States: Changing the terms of access to higher education Patricia Marin  9. Advancing access and equity in higher education Laura Dudley Jenkins, Michele S. Moses

Biography

Laura Dudley Jenkins is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati and a faculty affiliate with the Asian Studies Program and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department.

Michele S. Moses is Associate Professor and Chair of the Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA

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