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Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa : Opportunities, Obstacles and Outcomes
| Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa : Opportunities, Obstacles and Outcomes |
| Autore | Walker Melanie |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : African Minds, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (214 pages) |
| Disciplina | 378.1/9826942 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
McLeanMonica
MathebulaMikateko |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Higher - Economic aspects - South Africa
Students - South Africa - Economic conditions |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Education, Rural
Inclusive Education Education, Higher Education |
| ISBN | 1-928502-40-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 - Raising 'learning outcomes' for inclusive higher education: The Miratho Project -- Rationale for pursuing the human development capability approach (CA) -- Methodology and methods of data generation -- Note on data analysis -- The longitudinal life-history interviews -- Participatory research -- Student survey -- Ethical conduct of the research -- Use of secondary datasets -- Capability-based learning outcomes in the Miratho Matrix -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 - Capabilities and functionings: Reconceptualising learning outcomes -- Part 1: The capability approach, poverty and higher education -- Poverty reduction and the capability approach -- Higher education and the capability approach -- Part 2: Problematising 'learning outcomes' for inclusive higher education -- The politics of learning outcomes -- Measurement challenges -- Part 3: Learning outcomes as capability-based key functionings -- Learning outcomes at the level of teaching sessions and modules -- Learning outcomes at the level of programmes and institutions -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 - A challenging context and intersectional conversion factors -- Objective conversion factors: Society and economy -- Objective conversion factors: University -- Foregrounding poverty -- Brief commentary on the hardship numbers -- Poverty and well-being of university students -- Subjective conversion factors emerging from life-history interviews -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 - The Miratho Capabilitarian Matrix: Evaluating individual achievements and institutional arrangements -- Step one: A principled method -- Step two: Identifying capability domains and key functionings -- Epistemic contribution domain -- Ubuntu domain -- Practical reason domain -- Navigation domain -- Narrative domain.
Emotional balance domain -- Inclusion and participation domain -- Future work or study -- Step three: Miratho Matrix -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 - Opportunities and obstacles in achieving higher education access -- Material conversion factors: Money/funding -- Educational conversion factors: Schooling -- Environmental conversion factors: Geography and community -- Geography -- Community -- Social conversion factors: Information and extended family and significant others -- Information -- Extended families and significant others -- Personal conversion factors: Attitudes, values and characteristics -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6 - Possibilities for student transformation through capability-enhancing university participation -- Part 1: Academic participation -- Material conversion factors and students' engagement in processes of learning -- Environmental conversion factors and students' experiences of university -- Social conversion factors and students' experiences of being at university -- Educational conversion factors -- Part 2: Non-academic participation -- Personal conversion factors and students' engagement in extra-curricular activities -- Conclusion: Conversion factors for university participation -- Summary of findings about capabilities for participation -- CHAPTER 7 - Pathways for moving on from university -- Part 1: Different pathways for moving on from university for Miratho students -- Further study pathway -- Employment pathway -- No pathway: Studies completed but unemployed -- Part 2: How conversion factors influenced moving-on pathways -- Educational conversion factors and their effect on labour market opportunities -- Material conversion factors and their influence on moving on -- Social conversion factors and their effects on moving on -- Environmental conversion factors and moving on -- Personal conversion factors and students' moving on. Conclusion -- CHAPTER 8 - Five students' life histories: Conversion factors, functionings and inequality -- Mashudu: Metro -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- Sonto: City -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- Aphiwe: Provincial -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- Madoda: Rural -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- Rimisa: Country -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- What these five life histories tell us about low-income university students -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 9 - Access, participation and moving on for low-income youth -- Changing the informational basis for justice judgements -- Practical operationalisation of ideas -- Summary of findings -- Challenges and change -- Concluding thoughts -- Appendix A. Conversion factor tables for Ntando -- Appendix B. Ideas for the measurement of capability domains and functionings -- References -- Index -- Back cover. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910585983903321 |
Walker Melanie
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| Oxford : , : African Minds, , 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Working in class : recognizing how social class shapes our academic work / / edited by Allison L. Hurst and Sandi Nenga
| Working in class : recognizing how social class shapes our academic work / / edited by Allison L. Hurst and Sandi Nenga |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 378.1/9826942 |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States
Low-income college students - United States Educational mobility - United States Social classes - United States |
| ISBN | 1-4758-2254-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Research; 1 Class as a Force of Habit; 2 Controlling for Class; 3 Class, Academia, and Ontologies of Global Selfhood; 4 Survival Strategies for Working-Class Women as Junior Faculty Members; Part Two: Teaching; 5 Boundary Crossing; 6 Lessons Learned; 7 Making Class Salient in the Sociology Classroom; 8 Witnessing Social Class in the Academy; 9 The Classroom Crucible; Part Three: Work in the Academy; 10 Working-Class, Teaching Class, and Working Class in the Academy; 11 "We're All Middle Class Here"; 12 Narrating the Job Crisis
13 Capitalizing ClassReferences; Index; About the Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798300003321 |
| Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Working in class : recognizing how social class shapes our academic work / / edited by Allison L. Hurst and Sandi Nenga
| Working in class : recognizing how social class shapes our academic work / / edited by Allison L. Hurst and Sandi Nenga |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Disciplina | 378.1/9826942 |
| Soggetto topico |
Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States
Low-income college students - United States Educational mobility - United States Social classes - United States |
| ISBN | 1-4758-2254-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Research; 1 Class as a Force of Habit; 2 Controlling for Class; 3 Class, Academia, and Ontologies of Global Selfhood; 4 Survival Strategies for Working-Class Women as Junior Faculty Members; Part Two: Teaching; 5 Boundary Crossing; 6 Lessons Learned; 7 Making Class Salient in the Sociology Classroom; 8 Witnessing Social Class in the Academy; 9 The Classroom Crucible; Part Three: Work in the Academy; 10 Working-Class, Teaching Class, and Working Class in the Academy; 11 "We're All Middle Class Here"; 12 Narrating the Job Crisis
13 Capitalizing ClassReferences; Index; About the Contributors |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910824485903321 |
| Lanham : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2016] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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