Aspirations, education and social justice: applying Sen and Bourdieu. By Caroline Sarojini Hart

Democratizing Higher Education Through Community College: Some Qualitative Evidences From an East Asian Entrepreneurial City

“…The SBAF enables us to identify how "commodity bundles" (for example, parental expectation, community college experience, personal characteristics etc.) transform to opportunities to aspire or capabilities to realize aspirations (Menzies & Baars, 2015). This study will investigate the function of Hong Kong's community colleges play in the dynamics and processes of commoditycapabilities conversion through relatively democratic college admission, liberal pedagogic environment, learner-centered formative assessment and effective student service, including counselling advice for articulation to university degree.…”

“…The effective student service narrows the information asymmetry between disadvantaged students and aspiring university programs, therefore enables students to make realistic aspirations and successful strategies. Benefitted from the professional student service, individual commodity is transformed to capabilities to realize aspirations (Menzies & Baars, 2015). I often went to the counsellor in my first year because I got an interview opportunity for university admission.…”