1st Edition

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

By Nalita James, Hugh Busher Copyright 2018
160 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

158 Pages
by Routledge

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students to alter their identities and career opportunities than meeting narrow performative criteria of... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Part 1 Closed Doors

Chapter 1 The Landscape of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

Chapter 2 Researching the Access to HE Diploma

Part 2 Stepping Through the Door

Chapter 3 The Impact of Social and Economic Contexts on Accessing HE

Chapter 4 Struggling to Return to Formal Learning: Becoming as an Access to HE Student

Chapter 5 Practices of Transition: Being an Access to HE Student

Chapter 6 The Access to HE Course as a Community of Practice

Part 3 Opening Doors

Chapter 7 Access to Higher Education Tutors’ Stories

Chapter 8 Using Inclusive Teaching and Learning Strategies on the Access to HE Course

Chapter 9 The Significance and Importance of the Access to HE Diploma for Students Returning to Education

Index

Biography

Nalita James is Associate Professor in Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester.

Hugh Busher is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Leicester.