Description
Governments around the world are concerned with the crucial issue of increasing participation in further and higher education
This book will be a unique, authoritative reference for those working in education policy and research, exploring the interrelationships between research, policy and practice
Features a collection of insightful contributions by internationally renowned authorities from the US, UK , Europe and South Africa.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Key issues; Chapter 1 An international perspective on researching widening access, Michael Osborne, Jim Gallacher; Chapter 2 Researching widening access, Peter Scott; Chapter 3 Researching access in a rapidly changing context, Shirley Walters; Chapter 4 Looking through the kaleidoscope, Brenda Morgan-Klein, Mark Murphy; Chapter 5 Discourses of access, David Boud; Chapter 6 Widening access and literacy, Joseph Lo Bianco; Chapter 7 Widening access for the education of adults in the United States, Juanita Johnson-Bailey, Ronald M. Cervero; Chapter 8 E-learning and access, Jo Barraket; Chapter 9 Access as more, Hunter R. Boylan; Chapter 10 After access, Ewart Keep; Part 2 Methodological issues; Chapter 11 Part icipatory paradigms, Ramón Flecha, Jesús Gómez; Chapter 12 Questions of access and Part icipation, Beth Crossan, Michael Osborne; Chapter 13 Biography and narratives, Barbara Merrill, Peter Alheit; Chapter 14 Counting access, Alasdair Forsyth, Andy Furlong; Chapter 15 E-learning, marginalised communities and social capital, Sara Ferlander; Chapter 16 Organisation behaviour, research and access, Chris Duke; Chapter 17 The case study approach to research in adult literacy, numeracy and ESOL, Rob Mark; Chapter 18 Researching widening access, Jim Gallacher, Beth Crossan;
