Overview
- Provides an innovative theoretical development of systems theory to go beyond Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) systems approach in developmental psychology
- Based on a broad cross-national framework of 12 European countries, involving Western, Central and Eastern European countries
- Offers an important step in progression towards a UN rights based approach to implementation of access to education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lifelong Learning Book Series (LLLB, volume 21)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book identifies key elements of an international framework to develop systems-level change to promote access to education, including higher education, for socio-economically marginalized groups. It is based on interviews with senior government officials and senior management in universities, non formal education and prisons across 12 countries in Europe. The book identifies systemic obstacles to and opportunities for promotion of access to education for socio-economically excluded groups that are issues transferable to other countries’ contexts. It adopts a systemic focus on access across a range of domains of education, both formal higher education and non-formal education, as well as prison education. Through a focus on a more dynamic structuralist systems framework it develops an innovative post-Bronfenbrennerian view of system levels in lifespan developmental and educational psychology. It also develops an international agenda for reform in relation to these various system levels for access to education for socio-economically marginalized groups, through extraction of key structural indicators to evaluate reform progress in a transparent, culturally sensitive manner. The book identifies current gaps and strengths in policy, practice and structures that impact upon access to education, including higher education, across a range of countries. These gaps and strengths are illustrative and are to inform a strategic approach to system level change and development for the promotion of access to education for socio-economically marginalized groups in Europe and beyond.
“Too many educational practices entrench social exclusion: it is an urgent priority across Europe that social justice policies are implemented for the inclusion of marginalised groups. Paul Downes' analysis of these issues is timely. His conclusions are considered and practical: this book is a valuable and constructive resource for practitioners, academics and the policycommunity.” Professor Alistair Ross, Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor of Citizenship Education in Europe, Emeritus Professor of Education, Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Access to Education in Europe
Book Subtitle: A Framework and Agenda for System Change
Authors: Paul Downes
Series Title: Lifelong Learning Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8795-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8794-9Published: 13 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0042-7Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-8795-6Published: 29 April 2014
Series ISSN: 1871-322X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-5325
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Education, Lifelong Learning/Adult Education, Educational Philosophy