Stretching the Academy: The Politics and Practice of Widening Participation in Higher Education

Abstract

1 Joining, invading, reconstructing: participation for a change? Janice Malcolm 2 Beyond rhetoric: reclaiming a radical agenda for active participation in Higher Education Mary Stuart 3 Peripherality, solidarity and mutual learning in the global/local development business Anne Ryan 4 Common goods: beyond the new work ethic to the universe of the imagination Tom Steele 5 Concepts of self-directed learning in Higher Education: re-establishing the democratic tradition Richard Taylor 6 Social capital: a critique Loraine Blaxter and Christina Hughes 7 Women's community education in Ireland: the need for new directions towards 'really useful knowledge' Anne B Ryan and Brid Connolly 8 Friendship, flourishing and solidarity in community-based education Keith Hammond 9 Missionary and other positions: the community, the university and widening participation Pat Whaley 10 Widening participation through Action Learning in the Community Marjorie Mayo and Anan Collymore 11 Working with contradictions in the struggle for access John Bamber, Alan Ducklin and Lyn Tett 12 Turning the discourse Jim Crowther, Ian Martin and Mac Shaw

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