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Access to Higher Education: An Instrument for Fair Societies?
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Abstract Access to higher education (HE) has a long history. To offer a view on the current debates and worldwide issues regarding access to HE, this editorial depicts how the control of educational access has historically been used as an instrument of governance at the interface of two processes: social str... mehr
Access to higher education (HE) has a long history. To offer a view on the current debates and worldwide issues regarding access to HE, this editorial depicts how the control of educational access has historically been used as an instrument of governance at the interface of two processes: social stratification and the territorialisation of politics. Access to HE has remained embedded in these large structural processes even though HE has expanded from a highly elitist institution into mass education systems with equity of educational opportunities having become a desirable goal across societies. Analysing these processes helps understand the complex mechanisms producing inequalities in HE today, which are brought together by the ten articles composing this special issue. Tacking stock of how inequalities in access are produced in different continents, countries, HE Institutions, applying to different social groups though evolving mechanisms, these articles document the importance of contrasting methodological and theoretical approaches to produce comprehensive knowledge on this sensitive issue for democratic societies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Hochschulbildung; Hochschulzugang; Bildungschance; Ungleichheit; soziale Schichtung
Klassifikation
Bildungs- und Erziehungssoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
fair access
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Seitenangabe
S. 1-6
Zeitschriftentitel
Social Inclusion, 7 (2019) 1
Heftthema
Inequalities in Access to Higher Education: Methodological and Theoretical Issues
ISSN
2183-2803
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet