Download e-book for kindle: Access to Education in Europe: A Framework and Agenda for by Paul Downes

This booklet identifies key components of a global framework to enhance systems-level switch to advertise entry to schooling, together with larger schooling, for socio-economically marginalized teams. it really is in response to interviews with senior executive officers and senior administration in universities, non formal schooling and prisons throughout 12 international locations in Europe. The e-book identifies systemic hindrances to and possibilities for merchandising of entry to schooling for socio-economically excluded teams which are matters transferable to different international locations’ contexts. It adopts a systemic specialize in entry throughout a number domain names of schooling, either formal better schooling and non-formal schooling, in addition to criminal schooling. via a spotlight on a extra dynamic structuralist platforms framework it develops an leading edge post-Bronfenbrennerian view of method degrees in lifespan developmental and academic psychology. It additionally develops a global schedule for reform relating to those quite a few method degrees for entry to schooling for socio-economically marginalized teams, via extraction of key structural symptoms to guage reform growth in a clear, culturally delicate demeanour. The e-book identifies present gaps and strengths in coverage, perform and buildings that effect upon entry to schooling, together with better schooling, throughout various international locations. those gaps and strengths are illustrative and are to notify a strategic method of method point swap and improvement for the promoting of entry to schooling for socio-economically marginalized teams in Europe and beyond.

“Too many academic practices entrench social exclusion: it really is an pressing precedence throughout Europe that social justice rules are carried out for the inclusion of marginalised teams. Paul Downes' research of those concerns is well timed. His conclusions are thought of and useful: this publication is a helpful and optimistic source for practitioners, teachers and the coverage community.” Professor Alistair Ross, Jean Monnet ad Personam Professor of Citizenship schooling in Europe, Emeritus Professor of schooling, Institute for coverage stories in schooling, London Metropolitan University