دانلود کتاب Access to Higher Education: Theoretical perspectives and contemporary challenges

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Contents
Contributors
Preface
Section 1 Access to higher education
1 Global trends of access to and equity in postsecondary education
2 The stratification of opportunity in high participation systems (HPS) of higher education
Section 2 Theoretical perspectives
3 Capitals and habitus: a Bourdieusian framework for understanding transitions into higher education and student experiences
4 Explaining inequality? Rational action theories of educational decision making
5 Student choices under uncertainty: bounded rationality and behavioural economics
6 Higher education: too risky a decision?
7 Widening access with success: using the capabilities approach to confront injustices
8 Reflexivity and agency: critical realist and Archerian analyses of access and participation
Section 3 Contemporary challenges
9 Framing and making of access policies: the case of Palestinian Arabs in higher education in Israel
10 Widening access in a vast country: opportunities and challenges in Australia
11 Accessing postgraduate study in the United States for African Americans: relating the roles of family, fictive kin, faculty, and student affairs practitioners
12 Participation and access in higher education in Russia: continuity and change of a positional advantage
13 Can Holistic and Contextualised Admission (HaCA) widen access at highly selective universities? Experiences from England and the United States
14 Diversifying admissions through top-down entrance examination reform in Japanese elite universities: what is happening on the ground?
15 The mobility imperative: English students and ‘fair’ access to international higher education
Conclusion
Index