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  title info:
    title: University Engagement With Socially Excluded Communities
  name:
    name part: Benneworth, Paul.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 352 p. online resource.
  abstract: This volume provides insightful analysis of the way higher education engages with socially excluded communities. Leading researchers and commentators examine the validity of the claim that universities can be active facilitators of social mobility, opening access to the knowledge economy for formerly excluded groups. The authors assess the extent to which the ‘Academy’ can deliver on its promise to build bridges with communities whose young people often assume that higher education lies beyond their ambitions. The chapters map the core dynamics of the relationship between higher education and communities which have bucked the more general trend of rapidly rising student numbers. Contributors also take the opportunity to reflect on the potential impact of these dynamics on the evolution of the university’s role as a social institution. The volume was inspired by a symposium attended by a wide spectrum of participants, including government, senior university managers, academic researchers and community groups based in areas suffering from social exclusion. It makes a substantive contribution to an under-researched field, with authors seeking to both shape solutions as well as better diagnose the problem. Some chapters include valuable contextual analysis, using empirical data from North America, Europe and Australia to add substance to the debates on policy and theory. The volume seeks to offer a defining intellectual statement on the interaction between the concept of a ‘university’ and those communities historically missing from higher education participation, the volume deepens our understanding of what might characterise an ‘engaged’ university and strengthens the theoretical foundations of the topic.
  table of contents: Preface -- Contributors -- Part 1: University Engagement with Socially Excluded Communities -- Part 2: Internal University Transformations for Effective Regional Engagement -- Part 3: Transformations in the Epistemic ‘Idea’ of a University -- Part 4: Transformation in the Social Environment for University-Community Engagement -- Part 5: Conclusions -- Index.
  note: edited by Paul Benneworth.
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: School management and organization
  subject:
    topic: School administration
  subject:
    topic: Educational policy
  subject:
    topic: ducation and state
  subject:
    topic: Higher education
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Higher Education
  subject:
    topic: Educational Policy and Politics
  subject:
    topic: Administration, Organization and Leadership
  classification: LB2300-2799.3
  classification: 378
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