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Author Harwood, Valerie

Title The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People : Making educational futures
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (232 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Higher Education
Routledge research in higher education.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Educational futures; On the feelings of others; Bringing feeling to the fore; Emotional landscapes of educational foreclosure; Feeling educational futures; Empirical research on young lives in difficult places; Book overview; 2 Method assemblages and methodology; Empirical methods; Participants and places of the research; The research sites; About the interviews; Conceptual methodology; Valuing emotional and embodied knowledges; Assemblages and ecologies of learning; Feelings mixing through, as water
3 The embodied imagination and capacities to actCorporeality and the critical analysis of reason; The embodied imagination; Affecting changes; 4 Beyond the widening participation agenda -- toward ecologies of learning; Widening participation; Enacting widening participation; Enacting widening participation globally and nationally; Enacting widening participation at an institutional level; Enacting widening participation at a personal felt level: The young people in the study; Abject from university and lost from the system
Re-inventing widening participation: From widening participation to widening capability in an ecology of learning5 Precarious education and assemblages of disadvantage; Plural disadvantage; Building on the capability approach; Opportunities and security; Theorizing feelings and plural disadvantage; 6 Feeling different; Full of collisions: University is school; Sad passions and affects; Control over one's environment?; Affiliation and belonging; Dangers of affiliation and belonging with disadvantaged places; How they see me: The sad passions of being from here
7 Orientations, pathways and futuresOrientations; Object orientations; Vocational orientations; Pathways and futures; Pathways: Knowing other people who have successes; Pathways: Knowledges of places to go; Adequate ideas of educational pathways; 8 Reorganizing images; Unbelievable places; Imagining anxiety and imprisoning places; Space, weight, time and place: Mapping the overwhelm; Affects of isolation; Recognizing limit-experiences: Unmaking precarious education; Images and making educational futures; 9 Recommendations for widening participation; Making space to swerve
Diagrammatic pedagogies: Mapping possibilities for outreachPoint A -- The young person; Point B -- The school; Point C -- Higher education institution; Ecologies of learning; Assemblages of disadvantage; Kinds of knowledge and images of learning futures; Bibliography; Index
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Subject Education, Higher -- Social aspects
Universities and colleges -- Admission -- Social aspects
College attendance -- Social aspects
College dropouts -- Prevention.
Young adults -- Attitudes
People with social disabilities -- Education (Higher)
College attendance -- Social aspects
College dropouts -- Prevention
Education, Higher -- Social aspects
People with social disabilities -- Education (Higher)
Young adults -- Attitudes
Form Electronic book
Author Hickey-Moody, Anna
McMahon, Samantha.
O'Shea, Sarah
ISBN 9781317568520
1317568524