Improving opportunities to engage in learning: a study of the Access to Higher Education Diploma

Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students to...

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Main Authors: James, Nalita (Author), Busher, Hugh (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2018
Series:Routledge research in higher education
Routledge research in higher education
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:Improving Opportunities to Engage in Learning investigates the experiences of mature adult learners returning to formal education. The book challenges the policy discourses in which Access to Higher Education survives by suggesting that continuing education is more about determination by students to alter their identities and career opportunities than meeting narrow performative criteria of financial targets. Chapters explore students' struggles with institutional and social structures in the current political and socio-economic climate, before identifying how the transformation of their learner identities is facilitated in the courses by collaborative cultures and supportive tutors
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 146 pages)
ISBN:9781315672472
1315672472
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