Class, Race, Disability and Mental Health in Higher Education
Questioning the Access, Success and Progression of Disadvantaged Students
- 256 pages
- English
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Class, Race, Disability and Mental Health in Higher Education
Questioning the Access, Success and Progression of Disadvantaged Students
About this book
All universities have to produce plans to eliminate the gaps in access, success and participation of disadvantaged student in higher education, setting targets with regards to Global Majority, working class, disabled and student with mental health conditions. In this book, Mike Seal examines the terminology, theoretical debates and positions, identifies the causes of gaps, and evaluates proposed initiatives. He argues that there is an unexamined assumption that higher education is a 'good thing' materially and intellectually, which demonises those for whom this is questionable. The book also highlights the continuing structural and individual discrimination in terms of class, race and disability and a denial of the extent to which higher education is a cause of mental health issues and negative well-being. It uncovers unexamined 'assimilation' models in higher education that expects these students to abandon their culture and communities, despite students wanting to give back to these communities being a major extrinsic motivation, and to embrace a culture that will not embrace them. The book starts from the perspective that contemporary international higher education reproduces existing privileges, and the book goes on to argue that widening participation agendas should recognise the changing nature of academic life through a more inclusive, holistic approach. Seal argues that it is essential to include an informed understanding of how students position themselves in academia and how their identity and academic status is enabled and developed with the support of the university. In order to do this universities need to redefine their purpose and the nature of their relationships with the communities they purport to serve.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Introduction: Questioning the Access, Success and Progression of Disadvantaged Students in Higher Education
- 1 Theoretical Perspectives on Widening Participation
- 2 Social and Higher Education Policy and Widening Participation
- 3 Access, Success and Progression of Disadvantaged Students: CaseStudy of the UK
- 4 Working-Class Students, the Politics of Social Mobility Denied
- 5 Global Majority Students: The Politics of Denial
- 6 Student with Disabilities: The Politics of Marginalization
- 7 Students with Mental Health Issues: The Politics of Complicity
- Conclusion: Setting a Realistic Goal for the Access, Success andProgression of Disadvantaged Students in Higher Education
- References
- Index