| Description |
1 online resource (151 p.) |
| Series |
Local/Global Issues in Education Ser |
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Local/Global Issues in Education Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Equity in Australian higher education policy -- Local equity, global higher education -- Problematising equity through community aspirations -- Studying young people's aspirations: introducing our research -- Introducing the communities -- References -- Chapter 2: Conceptualising community -- A working definition of community |
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The role of community in aspiration formation -- Aspirations are not 'low' in disadvantaged communities -- Aspiration formation occurs differently across communities -- Communities are complex socio-spatial entities -- Identifying community 'types' -- Community as a lens to understand and address equity -- References -- Chapter 3: When university is taken-for-granted: The pressures of social reproduction and mobility -- Damperia -- Community snapshot -- A privileged community -- Living in a bubble -- Reproducing privilege through high expectations -- The familiar becomes expectation -- Summary |
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Teasel -- Community snapshot -- A suburb becomes a global city -- High aspirations in a diverse community -- The pressures of upward mobility -- University as an inescapable future -- Summary -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: When access to university campuses is not enough: The possibility and desirability of higher education -- Excelsa -- Community snapshot -- Waiting in the wings -- Aspiration and embedded history -- Actively disrupting history: the importance of exposure to higher education -- The problem of lagging infrastructure -- Summary -- Pimlea -- Community snapshot |
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Seeking an alternative lifestyle -- Resistance to governmentality -- Unviable futures: unemployment and aspiration -- Geographical mobility and the desirability of higher education -- Summary -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: On the (im)possibility and (un)desirability of raising university aspirations in rural communities -- Olearia -- Community snapshot -- Excruciating drought and rural decline -- Contracting employment opportunities -- Geographic and social isolation -- Complex challenges in education -- Limited opportunity, fading aspirations -- Summary -- Oldfields |
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Community snapshot -- Severe drought, trauma, and resilience -- Changing employment opportunities -- Geographic isolation -- Education -- Getting out or staying put -- Aspirations -- Imagined futures, restricted horizons -- Summary -- Ironbark -- Community snapshot -- Prosperity underpinned by access to water resources -- Abundant employment opportunities -- A seasonal approach to education -- Aspirations -- Weighing up the options -- Summary -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: Shaping student aspirations: Why community matters -- How communities shape aspirations |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Community as collective socialisation |
| Subject |
Education, Higher
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Patfield, Sally
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Fray, Leanne
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Harris, Jess
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| ISBN |
9781000814941 |
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1000814947 |
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