Download e-book for kindle: The Right to Higher Education: Beyond widening participation by Penny Jane Burke

The panorama of upper schooling has gone through switch and transformation lately, partially due to diversification and massification. in spite of the fact that, chronic styles of under-representation proceed to perplex policy-makers and practitioners, elevating questions on present thoughts, regulations and ways to widening participation.

Presenting a finished evaluate and critique of latest widening participation coverage and perform, Penny Jane Burke interrogates the underpinning assumptions, values and views shaping present options and understandings of widening participation. She attracts on more than a few views in the box of the sociology of schooling – together with feminist post-structuralism, severe pedagogy and coverage sociology – to ascertain the ways that wider societal inequalities and misrecognitions, that are relating to distinction and variety, current specific demanding situations for the venture to widen participation in greater schooling. particularly, the book:

• focuses at the topics of distinction and variety to make clear the operations of inequalities and the politics of entry and participation either when it comes to nationwide and institutional coverage and on the point of scholar and practitioner event.








• draws at the insights of the sociology of schooling to think about not just the styles of under-representation in greater schooling but additionally the politics of mis-representation, critiquing key discourses of widening participation.








• interrogates assumptions in the back of WP coverage and perform, together with assumptions approximately schooling being an unassailable reliable








• provides an research of the bills and views of scholars, practitioners and policy-makers via in-depth interviews, observations and reflective magazine entries.








• offers insights for destiny advancements within the coverage, perform and techniques for widening participation

The booklet should be of serious use to all these operating in and learning greater Education.