Introduction
From Access to Engagement and Beyond
ISBN: 978-1-80382-040-8, eISBN: 978-1-80382-037-8
Publication date: 14 July 2022
Citation
Billingham, S. (2022), "Introduction", From Access to Engagement and Beyond (Great Debates in Higher Education), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 137-137. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80382-037-820221020
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2022 Stuart Billingham. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited
The very short piece which follows was designed, as the Editorial, to set the context for various pieces which followed it in this 3rd Issue of the European Access Network (EAN) e-Newsletter.
It focusses mainly on how the ‘discourse of disability’ within and across education policy and practice had changed over a period of 30 years preceding it. It introduced, very, very briefly, what these changes had meant to some of the practices in post-school education. The Editorial conclusion succinctly captures what this piece was trying to do:
Gone, thankfully, are the days when discussions about disability and widening participation in further and higher education meant little more than installing wheelchair ramps at entrances of buildings. What, though, does it mean now and where is it going?
- Prelims
- 1 Introduction
- Ethnicity and Equal Opportunity in Higher Education in the 1900s: From Access to Pedagogy
- 2 Introduction
- Learning Communities and Tertiary Education
- 3 Introduction
- Diversity, Inclusion and the Transforming Student Experience
- 4 Introduction
- From Access to Engagement
- 5 Introduction
- ‘Too Busy to Come’: What Future for Widening Participation?
- 6 Introduction
- UK Launch of the European Access Network (EAN) World Congress on Access to Post-Secondary Education
- 7 Introduction
- Supporting Student Success: Making Excellence Inclusive
- 8 Introduction
- Same but Different
- 9 Introduction
- Reflections on the Future of Social Mobility
- 10 Introduction
- Access and Disability
- 11 Introduction
- Change Is Gonna Come
- “Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?”
- References
- Index