Improving Learning by Widening Participation in Higher Education

, by David, Miriam; Bathmaker, Ann-Marie; Crozier, Gill; Davis, Pauline

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ISBN: 9780203867976 | 0203867971
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Copyright: 9/18/2009

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This book presents a strong and coherent rationale for improving learning for diverse students from a range of backgrounds within higher education.

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Series Preface
What are the issues?
Introduction to the dilemmas of Widening Participation in Higher Education
What does the research tell us?
Policy contexts: Differentiation, competition and policies for widening participation
Access, participation and diversity questions in relation to different forms of post-compulsory further and higher education (FHEs) arranged in 4 sections
The importance of prior educational experiences
The Socio-Cultural and Learning Experiences of Working Class Students in Higher Education
Learners' transition from Vocational Education and Training to Higher Education
Ann-Marie Bathmaker: Seamlessness or separation: negotiating further and higher education boundaries in dual sector institutions
Pedagogies for social diversity and difference (arranged in two sections)
Learning and teaching in two universities within the context of increasing student diversity - complexity, contradictions and challenges
Keeping open the door to mathematically-demanding programmes in further and higher education: a cultural model of value
Outcomes in terms of age-based participation (arranged in two sections)
Diversity of experiences in higher education
Educational decision-making, social networks and the new widening participation
What are the overall implications both for policy and for research?
(with contributions from Geoff Hayward and Hubert Ertl, section 3): Conclusions: What are the overall findings and implications for evidence-based policies on fair access and widening participation?
(with contributions from Gill Crozier, Geoff Hayward and Hubert Ertl, Julian Williams and colleagues, and Chris Hockings): How do we improve learning by widening participation in HE: institutional practices and pedagogies for social diversity?
Appendices On Methodologies
Gareth Parry
Anna Vignoles
Gill Crozier
Geoff Hayward
Julian Williams
Chris Hockings
Alison Fuller
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