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Beyond Aspirations: Deploying the Capability Approach to Tackle the Under-Representation in Higher Education of Young People from Deprived Communities
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Campbell, Laurie Anne; McKendrick, John H. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2017
This paper re-examines the low participation of young people from deprived communities through the lens of the capability approach. A fundamental problem for tackling widening participation is that much of the thinking of policymakers is grounded on the flawed "poverty of aspiration thesis". This paper contends that Sen's [1992.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Disproportionate Representation, At Risk Persons, Case Studies
Critical Incidents as Formative Influences on the Work of Educational Researchers: Understanding an Insider Perspective through Narrative Enquiry
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Holligan, Chris; Wilson, Michael – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2015
Drawing on insights from phenomenological sociology and various strands of socio-cultural theory, this paper reports the findings of a qualitative investigation into critical incidents as formative influences in the research orientation and research cultivation of 22 academics working in research-intensive university education departments. The…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Research Universities, Educational Research, Educational Researchers