Race, Capital, and Equity in Higher Education -

Race, Capital, and Equity in Higher Education

Challenging Differential Academic Attainment in UK Universities
Buch | Hardcover
XXXIV, 279 Seiten
2024 | 2024
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-51616-0 (ISBN)
139,09 inkl. MwSt

This book examines the structural and cultural factors that explain the persistence of an attainment gap between white and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in UK universities. So-called 'deficit' approaches have long represented the orthodoxy in higher education strategy-making, yet they overlook the structural and institutional factors that reproduce attainment gaps. Whereas students already in possession of the right 'academic capital' are made to feel validated and empowered in their learning, BAME students - particularly those from working class backgrounds - may feel marginalised by dominant hierarchical cultures on campus.

This book provides an important and unique contribution to the study of racial equity in higher education. Its chapters provide a breadth and depth of analyses which help explain the roots of the attainment gap, while offering reflections and commentaries on the necessary steps that universities must take in order to ensure equityfor students from all backgrounds.

Alexander Hensby is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK.

Barbara Adewumi is Senior Research Fellow in Student Success at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK.. 


1 Editors' introduction: Race and the awarding gap.- 2 Race, class, and student choice: Negotiating competing rationalities.- 3 Becoming a higher education student: Managing expectations and adapting to independent learning.- 4 BAME students' extracurricular belonging at university: building networks, representation, and capital.- 5 Bringing vocational qualifications into the inclusivity agenda: The case of the BTEC.- 6 The role of motivation in student engagement and attainment.- 7 Doing the work: Institutional policy, research, and practice for closing the white-BAME awarding gap.- 8 Academic Advising in the massified university: Facilitating meaningful staff-student interactions.- 9 Reflections on teaching and negotiating race in social work and sociology.- 10 Race equity and inclusive curriculum: Diversity Mark and making a lasting impression on the institution.- 11 Editors' Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Palgrave Studies in Race, Inequality and Social Justice in Education
Zusatzinfo XXXIV, 279 p. 8 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Allgemeines / Lexika
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Bildungstheorie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Schlagworte equity in education • Ethnicity • ethnicity in education • higher education • Inequality • Race • Social Justice • Widening Participation
ISBN-10 3-031-51616-8 / 3031516168
ISBN-13 978-3-031-51616-0 / 9783031516160
Zustand Neuware
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