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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

Name: Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9781138943407
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Szerző: Nalita James, Hugh Busher

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Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Nalita James, Hugh Busher

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2018

oldal

146

EAN

9781138943407

ISBN

9781138943407

Enbook ID

18614836

Kiadó

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Súly

386

Méretek

240 x 161 x 15

Teljes leírás

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students to alter their identities and career opportunities than meeting narrow performative criteria of financial targets. Chapters explore students’ struggles with institutional and social structures in the current political and socio-economic climate, before identifying how the transformation of their learner identities is facilitated in the courses by collaborative cultures and supportive tutors.

The book addresses a research gap in knowledge about students’ and tutors’ experiences of Access to Higher Education courses, presenting a broad perspective on the importance and difficulties of such courses through listening to the voices of students and tutors undertaking a variety of Access to HE pathways. The authors argue that despite success on their courses benefiting the national economy as well as students individually, the social and financial costs of continuing education is almost entirely shifted onto students’ shoulders by policymakers. Despite the costs, students can still see Access to HE as a chance to improve their lives, reflecting the neoliberal discourse of personal responsibility and risk embedded in broader national social and policy discourses.

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of further and higher education, widening participation, social justice and sociology of education, and education policy and politics.