University Engagement With Socially Excluded Communities

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Benneworth, Paul (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Education.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Higher education.; Higher Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.

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 formerl...

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.