Editors:
- Explores the new field of Foundation Programmes and how they can be used to support transition to higher education for non-traditional students
- Argues that for widening participation initiatives to be successful in higher education they need to address the problems of cultural capital, recruitment bias and learner alienation
- Advances innovative approaches to admissions, marketing and recruitment and to the development and delivery of curricula which support students hoping to study further in a research-intensive university
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
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Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Catherine A. Marshall, Sam J. Nolan, Douglas P. Newton
About the editors
Douglas P. Newton is Professor in the School of Education at Durham University, UK. His books and articles attract international interest. Recent successes include Teaching for Understanding, and the much acclaimed Thinking with Feeling, described as a Copernican shift in the notion of teaching.
Sam J. Nolan is the Assistant Director of the Centre for Academic, Researcher and Organisation Development at Durham University, UK. From 2010-2015 Sam worked as a Physics Teaching Fellow, then Head of Scholarship at the Foundation Centre, where he supported the Centre in developing and promoting its scholarly profile.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Widening Participation, Higher Education and Non-Traditional Students
Book Subtitle: Supporting Transitions through Foundation Programmes
Editors: Catherine A. Marshall, Sam J. Nolan, Douglas P. Newton
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94969-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-94968-7Published: 05 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95690-6Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-94969-4Published: 21 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 198
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Higher Education, Sociology of Education