Overview
- Offers the first comprehensive, systematic and in-depth analysis of access and participation issues in Irish Higher Education
- Critically examines the policies and the practical realities of access to Higher Education
- Documents the progress and difficulties encountered in improving Higher Education participation, exploring the impact on Irish society as a whole
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction: Trends, Policies, Processes and Practices of Access
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Research and Policy on Access Students: Experiences, Intersections and Gaps
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Introduction: Teaching, Learning and Retention
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Ted Fleming is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Adult Education at Maynooth University, Ireland. He recently received the Jack Mezirow Living Theory of Transformation Learning Award for ‘outstanding contribution to the development of the theory of learning’ at Teachers College.
Fergal Finnegan is Director of the Higher Diploma of Further Education course and Lecturer at the Department of Adult and Community Education at Maynooth University, Ireland. He has recently co-edited Student Voices on inequalities in European Higher Education: Challenges for Policy and Practice in a Time of Change and is one of the convenors of the ESREA Network on Active Democratic Citizenship and Adult Learning.
Andrew Loxley is Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He has jointly edited Higher Education in Ireland: Practices, Policies and Possibilities.
Mark Kearns has completed his PhD at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Prior to this,he spent ten years working in adult and community-based education, more recently working with long-term unemployed adults returning to education, including higher education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Access and Participation in Irish Higher Education
Authors: Ted Fleming, Andrew Loxley, Fergal Finnegan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56974-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-56973-8Published: 17 February 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-56974-5Published: 08 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 326
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Sociology of Education, Education Policy, Sociology of Education