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Bridges, pathways and transitions : = international innovations in widening participation /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Bridges, pathways and transitions :/ edited by Mahsood Shah, Gail Whiteford.
Reminder of title:	international innovations in widening participation /
other author:	Shah, Mahsood,
Description:	1 online resource
Subject:	Education, Higher - Cross-cultural studies. -
Online resource:	https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780081019214
ISBN:	9780081019221

Bridges, pathways and transitions : = international innovations in widening participation /
Bridges, pathways and transitions :international innovations in widening participation /edited by Mahsood Shah, Gail Whiteford. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bridges, Pathways and Transitions: International Innovations in Widening Participation shows that widening participation initiatives and policies have had a profound impact on improving access to higher education to historically marginalized groups of students from diverse socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. The research presented provides a source of inspiration to students who are navigating disadvantage to succeed in higher education against the odds. There are stories of success in difficult circumstances, revealing the resilience and determination of individuals and collectives to fight for a place in higher education to improve chances for securing social mobility for next generations. The book also reveals that more work and policy interventions are needed to further equalize the playing field between social groups. Governments need to address the entrenched structural inequalities, particularly the effects of poverty, that prevent more academically able disadvantaged students from participating in higher education on the basis of the circumstances of their birth. Across the globe, social reproduction is far more likely than social mobility because of policies and practices that continue to protect the privilege of those in the middle and top of social structures. With the gap between rich and poor widening at a rate previously unseen, we need radical policies to equalize the playing field in fundamental ways.

ISBN: 9780081019221Subjects--Topical Terms:

585623
Education, Higher
--Cross-cultural studies.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: LB2322.2

Dewey Class. No.: 378

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