LEADER 03865oam 2200589I 450 001 9910151705903321 005 20250320175039.0 010 $a9781315684574 010 $a1315684578 010 $a9781317409571 010 $a1317409574 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315684574 035 $a(CKB)3710000000952483 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4745730 035 $a(PPN)283838892 035 $a(OCoLC)960905805 035 $a(BIP)56990765 035 $a(BIP)54581874 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000952483 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAccess to higher education $etheoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges /$fedited by Anna Mountford-Zimdars and Neil Harrison 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (269 pages) $cillustrations, graphs 225 1 $aSociety for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) 311 08$a9781138924109 311 08$a1138924105 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $aSection 1. Access to higher education -- Section 2. Theoretical perspectives -- Section 3. Contemporary challenges. 330 $aHow do we understand and explain who has access to higher education? How do we make sense of persisting and new forms of inequality? How can global, national and institutional policymakers and practitioners make higher education more inclusive? Access to Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges seeks to update thinking on these questions, combining new voices and emerging perspectives with established writers in the field. This pioneering text highlights the contribution of social theory to issues of access to education, with chapters introducing and drawing on the works of key interdisciplinary thinkers including Pierre Bourdieu, Margaret Archer, Amartya Sen and Herbert Simon. It then moves to examines how theoretical perspectives can be applied to the contemporary challenges of forging more equal access, with examples drawn from a wide range of contexts, including the UK, the US, Australia, South Africa and Japan. Global in scope, this book documents the shared nature of the access challenge in a period when higher education is growing rapidly, but inequalities continue to be stark. It concludes by proposing a new direction for research and a reassertion of the role of the researcher as a social activist for disconnected and disadvantaged groups, equipped with the thinking tools needed to move the agenda forward. Access to Higher Education is a rigorous text for the global research community, with relevance to policymakers, practitioners and postgraduate students interested in social justice and social policy. It provides those with an academic interest in access and a commitment to enhancing policy with theoretical and practical ideas for moving the access agenda forward in their institutional, regional or national contexts. 410 0$aResearch into higher education (SRHE) 606 $aUniversities and colleges$xAdmission$vCross-cultural studies 606 $aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives$vCross-cultural studies 606 $aEducational equalization$vCross-cultural studies 615 0$aUniversities and colleges$xAdmission 615 0$aEducation, Higher$xAims and objectives 615 0$aEducational equalization 676 $a379.2/6 701 $aHarrison$b Neil E.$f1949-$01189540 701 $aMountford-Zimdars$b Anna$f1979-$0980705 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151705903321 996 $aAccess to higher education$92886738 997 $aUNINA