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Social Inclusion and Higher Education
Tehmina N Basit
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Description for Social Inclusion and Higher Education
Hardcover. This book is about the experiences of students in institutions of higher education from 'non-traditional' backgrounds with contributions from the UK, the USA and Australia which reveal that the issues surrounding the inclusion of 'non-traditional' students are broadly similar in different countries. Editor(s): Basit, Tehmina N.; Tomlinson, Sally. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSL1; JNFR; JNM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 648.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about the experiences of students in institutions of higher education from 'non-traditional' backgrounds. The expansion of Higher Education world-wide shows no signs of slowing down and there is already a large literature on who has access to higher education and to qualifications that offer higher life-time incomes and status. However to date there has been minimal focus on what happens to the students once they are in the institutions and the inequalities that they face. This book aims to fill this gap in the literature. The chapters demonstrate that the students ... Read more
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about the experiences of students in institutions of higher education from 'non-traditional' backgrounds. The expansion of Higher Education world-wide shows no signs of slowing down and there is already a large literature on who has access to higher education and to qualifications that offer higher life-time incomes and status. However to date there has been minimal focus on what happens to the students once they are in the institutions and the inequalities that they face. This book aims to fill this gap in the literature. The chapters demonstrate that the students ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Policy Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847427977
SKU
V9781847427977
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99-50
About Tehmina N Basit
Tehmina N Basit is Professor of Education and Director of the Institute for Education Policy Research at Staffordshire University. Her research interests include social justice, social inclusion, ethnicity, gender, and teacher education and professional development. Sally Tomlinson is Emeritus Professor of Education at Goldsmiths College, London University and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Education, University of Oxford. She is a ... Read more
Reviews for Social Inclusion and Higher Education
"A timely, empirical and theoretical addition to the literature." Sociology