Widening Participation and HE. Students, systems and other paradoxes.
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Thompson, David W.Issue Date
2008
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This paper has developed from research that the author initiated. The data were derived from an outreach project that aimed to increase awareness of and participation in higher education amongst Muslim women within a major English city. The paper elevates some of the author's findings into a general discussion on the role of higher education (HE) and the paradoxes that are revealed when considering how concepts of widening participation and lifelong learning fit within the HE system. Readers are invited to think of different approaches to widening participation, for example through civic and community engagement, and consider sustained research that relates access to wider debates within the study of HE, such as lifelong learning and civic responsibility.Citation
London Review of Education, 6(2): 137-147Publisher
London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis)Journal
London Review of EducationType
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
1474846014748479
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/14748460802185102
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