
Degrees of Success
The Transitions from Vocational to Higher Education
Emerald Publishing Limited
Published on 26. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-80043-195-9 (ISBN)
Description
Policies to promote high participation in Higher Educations (HE) systems aim to deliver social justice and economic development through widening participation of under-represented groups. Degrees of Success provides a critical test of this through examination of participation and success of learners progressing to HE with a vocational background.
Employing an original conceptual framework that combines the ideas of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu the authors analyse the various transitional frictions experienced by learners with VET backgrounds on their journeys into and through the HE system. The findings indicate that including students with vocational qualifications does lead to widening participation but that their modes of participation may not provide fair access and outcomes. In part this is due to the epistemic incompatibilities between higher and vocational education which remain unresolved despite constant VET qualification reform.
This book, therefore, extends the debate about widening participation beyond metaphors of barriers to access to consider the epistemic and pedagogical challenges of increasing student heterogeneity in high participation HE systems. The analysis and policy suggestions therefore have relevance for all seeking to support students' HE learning journeys, and policy makers concerned with how best to utilise HE systems as means of furthering social mobility and justice.
Employing an original conceptual framework that combines the ideas of Basil Bernstein and Pierre Bourdieu the authors analyse the various transitional frictions experienced by learners with VET backgrounds on their journeys into and through the HE system. The findings indicate that including students with vocational qualifications does lead to widening participation but that their modes of participation may not provide fair access and outcomes. In part this is due to the epistemic incompatibilities between higher and vocational education which remain unresolved despite constant VET qualification reform.
This book, therefore, extends the debate about widening participation beyond metaphors of barriers to access to consider the epistemic and pedagogical challenges of increasing student heterogeneity in high participation HE systems. The analysis and policy suggestions therefore have relevance for all seeking to support students' HE learning journeys, and policy makers concerned with how best to utilise HE systems as means of furthering social mobility and justice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
260 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80043-195-9 (9781800431959)
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Geoff Hayward | Eugenia Katartzi | Hubert Ertl
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The Transitions from Vocational to Higher Education
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Persons
Geoff Hayward is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, a Fellow of Pembroke College, and Research Fellow of the Bundesinstitut fuer Berufsbildung.
Eugenia Katartzi is an Assistant Professor at Nottingham University with an expertise in sociology of education and psychosocial studies of childhood, youth and migration.
Hubert Ertl is Vice President and Director of Research at Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Bonn and Professor of Vocational Education Research at the University of Paderborn.
Michael Hoelscher is Professor of Higher Education and Research Management at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and Fellow at the German Research Institute for Public Administration.
Eugenia Katartzi is an Assistant Professor at Nottingham University with an expertise in sociology of education and psychosocial studies of childhood, youth and migration.
Hubert Ertl is Vice President and Director of Research at Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training, Bonn and Professor of Vocational Education Research at the University of Paderborn.
Michael Hoelscher is Professor of Higher Education and Research Management at the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and Fellow at the German Research Institute for Public Administration.
Author
University of Cambridge, UK
University of Nottingham, UK
Federal Institute of Vocational Education and Training, Germany
German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer, Germany
Content
Chapter 1. The Changing Transitional Landscape
Chapter 2. The Growth in Post-16 Participation
Chapter 3. Access, Attrition and Attainment
Chapter 4. Conceptualising Transitions from Vocational to Higher Education
Chapter 5. Navigating the Transitional Landscape
Chapter 6. Admissions and Teaching
Chapter 7. Degrees of Success
Chapter 2. The Growth in Post-16 Participation
Chapter 3. Access, Attrition and Attainment
Chapter 4. Conceptualising Transitions from Vocational to Higher Education
Chapter 5. Navigating the Transitional Landscape
Chapter 6. Admissions and Teaching
Chapter 7. Degrees of Success