1st Edition

The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People Making educational futures

216 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

232 Pages
by Routledge

Young people with tenuous relationships to schooling and education are an enduring challenge when it comes to addressing social inclusion, yet their experiences remain overlooked in efforts to widen participation in higher education. The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People examines the existing knowledges and feelings these young people have about higher... Read more

1. Educational Futures  2. Method Assemblages and Methodology  3. The Embodied Imagination and Capacities to Act  4. Beyond the Widening Participation Agenda – Towards Ecologies of Learning  5. Precarious Education and Assemblages of Disadvantage  6. Feeling Different  7. Orientations, Pathways and Futures  8. Reorganizing Images  9. Recommendations for Widening Participation

Biography

Valerie Harwood is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Wollongong, Australia.

Anna Hickey-Moody is based at the Department of Gender & Cultural Studies, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.

Samantha McMahon is a Research Fellow for the UOW-AIME Research Partnership, at the School of Education, University of Wollongong.

Sarah O’Shea is an Australian National Teaching and Learning Fellow at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

 'The authors have produced a strong text which takes us forward in the long journey to a university that embodies its society. It strong in two ways that do not always go together but are combined very well here: effective use of theories of the subject, and nuanced, insightful material from students themselves. Great work'.

Simon Marginson, Director ESRC/HEFCE Centre for Global Higher Education, University College London