Strategies for supporting inclusion and diversity in the academy : higher education, aspiration and inequality

Strategies for supporting inclusion and diversity in the academy : higher education, aspiration and inequality / Gail Crimmins, editor.

This book explores tried and tested strategies that support student and faculty engagement and inclusion in the academy. These strategies are anchored by a brief exploration of the history and effect/s of exclusion and deprivilege in higher education. However, while many publications exploring acade...

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Other Authors: Crimmins, Gail
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Subjects:
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives.
Minorities in higher education.
Inclusive education.
Mainstreaming in education.
Mainstreaming in education
Education, Higher > Aims and objectives
Inclusive education
Minorities in higher education
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Gail Crimmins
  • Chapter 1. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater: Statistics can create impetus to address educational inequity; Gail Crimmins
  • SECTION I. Supporting racial diversity in the academy
  • Chapter 2. Promoting race equality and supporting ethnic diversity in the academy: The UK experience over two decades; Andrew Pilkington
  • Chapter 3. Reflecting on representation: Exploring critical tensions within doctoral training programmes in the UK; Rebecca Gordon and Lakshmi S. Bose
  • Chapter 4. Killing the Indigene: Interrogating the support of First Nations' diversity in the modern university; Sandy O'Sullivan
  • Chapter 5. Refugees in neoliberal universities; Aura Lounasmaa
  • Chapter 6. A critical-relational approach to community development that increases well-being, learning outcomes and retention of international students; Athena Lathouras
  • SECTION II. Engendering gender diversity in higher education
  • Chapter 7. Thriving in the academy: Culturally responsive mentoring for Black women's early career success; Tamara Bertrand-Jones, Jesse R. Ford, Devona F. Pierre and Denise Davis-Maye
  • Chapter 8. Women and leadership: Strategies of gender inclusion in institutions of higher education in India; Karuna Chanana
  • Chapter 9. Mainstreaming gender into the quality assurance of higher education programs; Tània Verge
  • Chapter 10. Success for LGBT college and university students; Kristen A. Renn
  • Chapter 11. Trans inclusive higher education: Strategies to support trans, non-binary and gender diverse students; Stephanie Mckendry and Matson Lawrence
  • SECTION III. Re'class'ifying academia
  • Chapter 12. The Coffee Club: An initiative to support mature and non-traditional higher education students in Wales; Dawn Mannay and Michael R.M. Ward
  • Chapter 13. Using a funds of knowledge approach to engage diverse cohorts through active and personally relevant learning; Sally Tazewell
  • Chapter 14. The impact of stigma, placement instability and individual motivation on successful transitions in and through university for care experienced young people; Gemma Allnatt
  • Chapter 15. Murdoch's aspirations and pathways for university (MAP4U) project: Developing and supporting low SES students' aspirations for higher education participation using school-based university outreach programs; Antoinette Geagea and Judith MacCallum
  • SECTION IV. Disabling the barrier of dis/ability in higher education
  • Chapter 16. Inclusive higher education for college students with intellectual disability; Lauren Bethune-Dix, Erik W. Carter, Cassandra Hall, Elise McMillan, John Cayton, Tammy Day, Megan Vranicar, Chad Bouchard, Lindsay Krech, Jenny Gustafson, Emilee Bauer The Women Who Write; Linda Henderson, Alison L. Black, Gail Crimmins and Janice K. Jones
  • Chapter 17. Student Suggestions for Improving Learning at University for Those with Learning Challenges/Disability; Susan Grimes
  • Chapter 18. A Case Study of the Educational Experience of Adult Students with Dyslexia across Five TAFE Institutes in Queensland; Jacques Caskey
  • Chapter 19. Inclusion in Practice: Operationalising Principles of Inclusion and Diversity; Gail Crimmins.

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