Accessing Education: Effectively Widening Participation; Author: Burke, Penny Jane; Paperback

Author: Burke, Penny Jane
Paperback
170 pages
Published: February 2002
Trentham Books Ltd
ISBN: 1858562554

Access courses were developed in Britain to promote equality and social justice.This research study of access education draws on the views of academics, access practitioners and, most importantly, the accounts and critiques of access students themselves. It notes how access as now provided within the dominant discourse is often intimidating to the students it is meant to serve and how current approaches can reinforce poverty and exclusion and reproduce unequal power relations. Dr Burke and her students argue for a collaboratively developed pedagogy for access courses that includes theory and practice, teachers and students. They call for a pedagogy that addresses difference and context while remaining committed to anti-classicist, anti-sexist and antiracist approaches to teachThis research study of access education draws on the views of academics, access practitioners and, most importantly, the accounts and critiques of access students themselves. This research study of access education draws on the views of academics, access practitioners and, most importantly, the accounts and critiques of access students themselves.Draws on the views and experience of academics, access practitioners and access students. Their accounts reveal how access as currently provided within the dominant discourse can intimidate the students it is meant to serve, reinforcing exclusion and poverty and reproducing unequal power relations.