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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"widening participation policy"”.
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Whiteness and exclusion: An ethnography of the racialised discourse of the UK’s Widening Participation agenda
The widening participation policy agenda in higher education – increasing participation for historically underrepresented groups – forms part of a broader picture of local and global transformations in higher education. In the UK, the focus on widening participation grew in momentum under the New …
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Realising potential? The challenges of widening participation for students, further education and higher education.
… faced as a practitioner involved in developing widening participation initiatives and Foundation Degrees. It consists of an exploration of the value of a Professional Doctorate in enabling researching professionals to develop research in the context of their everyday practice, and how this can …
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Access to higher education as a point of transition for mature students, an experience by which they are transformed
… in Further Education (FE) and interrogates how widening participation policy discourse for under-represented groups, posits mature students’ identity, as one of individual and collective deficit. Employing Mezirow’s concept of transformative learning, ten biographical accounts of ex-Access …
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How Inequality in Education in Ireland is Produced, Reproduced, Justified, and Resisted at the Intersection of Disability and Social Class
… through the cracks of national and institutional policy and practice. The voices of the participants are central and offer a very different way of thinking about disability, about widening participation policy and practice, and about access to education in Ireland. Students identified multiple …