Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning: A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

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Nalita James Hugh Busher (University of Leicester, UK University of Leicester University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning

A Study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

Nalita James, Hugh Busher (University of Leicester, UK University of Leicester University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)

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Routledge
25 February 2020

Education; Moral & social purpose of education; Educational strategies & policy; Higher & further education, tertiary education; Adult education, continuous learning

Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education

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.

By: Nalita James, Hugh Busher (University of Leicester, UK University of Leicester University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367488109
ISBN 10: 0367488108
Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 25 February 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nalita James is Associate Professor in Lifelong Learning at the University of Leicester. Hugh Busher is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Leicester.