Re-conceptualising sustainable widening participation: evaluation, collaboration and evolution

Reed, Richard J.; King, Anna E.; Whiteford, Gail

doi:10.1080/07294360.2014.956692

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“…Institutions cannot rely on generalisations about their student intake when making decisions about support and barriers to academic progress. The concept of "highly individualised journeys" of aboriginal students in Australia (Reed et al, 2015) can in some ways be transposed to widening participation students in the UK. Thomsen"s (2012) research exploring the heterogeneity of class in Danish higher education suggests that "statistically and sociologically, university students are often treated as a homogeneous group" but that "the ever-increasing number of students in higher education demand a close examination of the hidden heterogeneity in the students" social origin and educational strategies" (p.565).…”

Section: Diversity and Heterogeneity: Reflections On Changing Studentmentioning

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Widening participation research and practice in the United Kingdom on the twentieth anniversary of the Dearing report, reflections on a changing landscape

Thompson

2017

Educational Review

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This paper is a reflective and critical review of research relating to widening participation (WP) in higher education (HE). The motivation for undertaking this was the twentieth anniversary of the Dearing Report Higher Education in the Learning Society (1997); a document that ignited a wide range of WP activity and policy. Dearing’s report was published in the United Kingdom and represents one of the most significant reviews of higher education in this country since the Robbins’ Report of 1963. His vision for HE included a “compact” between local and regional communities and their universities, and emphasised WP and greater student diversity. I draw on my own research in WP since Dearing, compare with other research projects, and compare with my experiences as a practitioner and researcher in various contexts, including most recently in a post-1992 university known for being a WP institution. This paper identifies several core themes that emerged from WP activities over the last 20 years and leads to the development of an added dimension in WP research. It calls for more consideration of the complex and heterogeneous identities of WP students today. It then returns to some of Dearing’s original themes and considers how WP is situated in the current neoliberal climate affecting HE; it presents a set of ideas for discussion with respect to the future of WP research

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Section: Diversity and Heterogeneity: Reflections On Changing Studentmentioning

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Widening participation research and practice in the United Kingdom on the twentieth anniversary of the Dearing report, reflections on a changing landscape

Thompson

2017

Educational Review

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“…That is, inclusive practices that have been identified in the literature (e.g. Agirdag 2010; Demie 2005;Reed et al 2015;Scheurich 1998)-including less selective student recruitment and evaluation, an organisational culture of care, individually-centred teaching and learning (e.g. individual learning plans and support systems), culturallycentred teaching and learning (e.g.…”

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“…(e.g. Agirdag 2010;Demie 2005;Reed et al 2015;Scheurich 1998). For the remainder of this article, we refer to these alternative practices as inclusive practices, which are broader than teaching and learning practices in that they also include e.g.…”

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An organisational perspective on social exclusion in higher education: a case study

Mampaey

2017

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We explore organisational mechanisms underlying social exclusion in higher education, the latter defined as the underrepresentation of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. We focus on "decoupling," which is a central concept in organisational institutionalism referring to the construction of gaps between public commitment and core organisational practices, a common phenomenon in organisations worldwide. In the context of social inclusion this implies that universities are often publicly committed to social inclusion whereas their actual practices reproduce social exclusion. drawing on an in-depth case study of a Flemish university, we identify four possible antecedents of decoupling: institutional contradictions resulting from the neo-liberalisation of higher education, uncertainty about effective inclusive practices, resistance of key constituencies and resource stringency resulting from experiences of lacking public funding.

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“…Lynette Swift (2012, p. 259) examines ''approaches to determining the financial viability of academic programmes as a critical component of assessing a programme's overall sustainability''. In this reduced, ''business'' shape, the concept has been deployed across many other areas of institutional activity: thus we have ''sustainable feedback'' (Carless et al 2010), ''sustainable university-wide fieldwork education'' (Trede 2010), ''sustainable widening participation'' (Reed et al 2015), and sustainable ''retention and attrition strategies'' (Maher and Macallister 2013).…”

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The misuses of sustainability: Adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism

Holford

2016

Int Rev Educ

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Re-conceptualising sustainable widening participation: evaluation, collaboration and evolution

Cited by 19 publications

References 20 publications

Widening participation research and practice in the United Kingdom on the twentieth anniversary of the Dearing report, reflections on a changing landscape

Widening participation research and practice in the United Kingdom on the twentieth anniversary of the Dearing report, reflections on a changing landscape

An organisational perspective on social exclusion in higher education: a case study

The misuses of sustainability: Adult education, citizenship and the dead hand of neoliberalism

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