Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, Obstacles and Outcomes - Couverture souple

Walker, Melanie; McLean, Monica; Mathebula, Mikateko

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1928502393 ISBN 13 : 9781928502395

Editeur : African Minds, 2022

Synopsis

This book explores learning outcomes for low-income rural and township youth at five South African universities. The book is framed as a contribution to southern and Africa-centred scholarship, adapting Amartya Sen's capability approach and a framework of key concepts: capabilities, functionings, context, conversion factors, poverty and agency to investigate opportunities and obstacles to achieved student outcomes. This approach allows a reimagining of 'inclusive learning outcomes' to encompass the multi-dimensional value of a university education and a plurality of valued cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes for students from low-income backgrounds whose experiences are strongly shaped by hardship.

Based on capability theorising and student voices, the book proposes for policy and practice a set of contextual higher education capability domains and corresponding functionings orientated to more justice and more equality for each person to have the opportunities to be and to do what they have reason to value. The book concludes that sufficient material resources are necessary to get into university and flourish while there; the benefits of a university education should be rich and multi-dimensional so that they can result in functionings in all areas of life as well as work and future study; the inequalities and exclusion of the labour market and pathways to further study must be addressed by wider economic and social policies for 'inclusive learning outcomes' to be meaningful; and that universities ought to be doing more to enable black working-class students to participate and succeed.

Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa makes an original contribution to capabilitarian scholarship: conceptually in theorising a South-based multi-dimensional student well-being higher education matrix and a rich reconceptualisation of learning outcomes, as well as empirically by conducting rigorous, longitudinal in-depth mixed-methods research on students' lives and experiences in higher education in South Africa. The audience for the book includes higher education researchers, international capabilitarian scholars, practitioners and policy-makers.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Melanie Walker is distinguished professor and South African Research Chair in Higher Education and Human Development at the UFS. She is a National Research Fund (NRF) A1-rated scholar, fellow of the Academy of Science South Africa (ASSAf) and fellow of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA).

Monica McLean is professor emeritus in higher education at the University of Nottingham, and honorary professor at the University of the Free State (UFS).

Mikateko Mathebula is a senior researcher at the South African Research Chair in Higher Education and Human Development at the UFS.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: African Minds
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1928502393
• ISBN 13: 9781928502395
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne