Perspectives on Access to Higher Education: Practice and Research

di Sam Broadhead (Autore)

Rosemarie Davies (Autore)

Anthony Hudson (Autore)

Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019

Access education has been through many changes since its beginnings in the late 1960s. Recent shifts in the academic landscape including standardization, grading, and new tensions in higher education raise difficult questions for educators regarding the future of access education. This book critically examines various aspects of Access education from a historical perspective. It proposes that there are particular 'Access' values that are shared by practitioners that can be at odds with the needs of higher education. Wider questions concerning funding and accountability underpinned by neoliberalism have also had an impact on Access education. The authors, practitioners and researchers of Access education, gather their insights in this timely book, grounded in authentic experience. They explore the ways in which policies and procedures have been developed in light of these tensions. By drawing particular attention to the voices of Access practitioners and highlighting the current constraints around curriculum design this book will prove invaluable for leaders, administrators, researchers and practitioners in further and higher education.

• Autore: Sam Broadhead, Rosemarie Davies, Anthony Hudson
• Editore: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Collana: Great Debates in Higher Education Book Set (2017-2019)
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 184 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• Peso: 200 gr.
• EAN: 9781787569942

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