Struggles for access to and participation in higher education have a long history and continue to present challenges across a range of contexts. Access invites critical debates at the intersection of higher education and inequalities of international interest and significance.
Part of the journal’s project is to engage an increasing diversity of voices, perspectives, theories and methodologies, critique the practices of research, writing and publication, and disrupt dominant forms of representation of and in the field.
Access applies broad understandings of equity issues, which includes how class, dis/ability, gender, geography, faith, nation, race and sexuality intersect. The journal is committed to extending the scope of exploration around questions of access, equity and widening participation including but also beyond admissions and entry. The changing shape of higher education foregrounds concerns with its fundamental purpose as a public institution and raises significant questions about access to what forms of higher education and for whom.
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2024-11-10
We are excited to share with you the new issue of Access - Radical disruptions: Regenerating care-full academic norms, edited by Professor Marie-Pierre Moreau and Dr Genine Hook.
You can read the full issue here: https://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ceehe/index.php/iswp/issue/view/21
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2024): Radical disruptions: Regenerating care-full academic norms
Radical disruptions: Regenerating care-full academic norms is edited by Marie-Pierre Moreau and Genine Hook.
This Special Issue of Access: Critical explorations of equity in higher education engages with academic cultures through the conceptual lens of care. Building on Joan Tronto’s encompassing definition of care, we understand care as ‘the set of activities by which we act to organise our world, so that we can live in it the best way possible’ (Tronto 2009, p. 14) and argue that academia represents a fruitful site to explore care work in its complexity and ambiguity...
This issue was supported by QR funding from Anglia Ruskin University
Published: 06.11.2024
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