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Low-income students, human development and higher education in South Africa : opportunities, obstacles and outcomes.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Walker, Melanie
Otros Autores: Mclean, Monica, Mathebula, Mikateko
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cape Town, South Africa : African Minds, 2022.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 -- Raising 'learning outcomes' for inclusive higher education: The Miratho Project -- Rationale for pursuing the human development capability approach (CA) -- Methodology and methods of data generation -- Note on data analysis -- The longitudinal life-history interviews -- Participatory research -- Student survey -- Ethical conduct of the research -- Use of secondary datasets -- Capability-based learning outcomes in the Miratho Matrix -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 -- Capabilities and functionings: Reconceptualising learning outcomes -- Part 1: The capability approach, poverty and higher education -- Poverty reduction and the capability approach -- Higher education and the capability approach -- Part 2: Problematising 'learning outcomes' for inclusive higher education -- The politics of learning outcomes -- Measurement challenges -- Part 3: Learning outcomes as capability-based key functionings -- Learning outcomes at the level of teaching sessions and modules -- Learning outcomes at the level of programmes and institutions -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 -- A challenging context and intersectional conversion factors -- Objective conversion factors: Society and economy -- Objective conversion factors: University -- Foregrounding poverty -- Brief commentary on the hardship numbers -- Poverty and well-being of university students -- Subjective conversion factors emerging from life-history interviews -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 -- The Miratho Capabilitarian Matrix: Evaluating individual achievements and institutional arrangements -- Step one: A principled method -- Step two: Identifying capability domains and key functionings -- Epistemic contribution domain -- Ubuntu domain -- Practical reason domain -- Navigation domain -- Narrative domain. 
505 8 |a Emotional balance domain -- Inclusion and participation domain -- Future work or study -- Step three: Miratho Matrix -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 -- Opportunities and obstacles in achieving higher education access -- Material conversion factors: Money/funding -- Educational conversion factors: Schooling -- Environmental conversion factors: Geography and community -- Geography -- Community -- Social conversion factors: Information and extended family and significant others -- Information -- Extended families and significant others -- Personal conversion factors: Attitudes, values and characteristics -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 6 -- Possibilities for student transformation through capability-enhancing university participation -- Part 1: Academic participation -- Material conversion factors and students' engagement in processes of learning -- Environmental conversion factors and students' experiences of university -- Social conversion factors and students' experiences of being at university -- Educational conversion factors -- Part 2: Non-academic participation -- Personal conversion factors and students' engagement in extra-curricular activities -- Conclusion: Conversion factors for university participation -- Summary of findings about capabilities for participation -- CHAPTER 7 -- Pathways for moving on from university -- Part 1: Different pathways for moving on from university for Miratho students -- Further study pathway -- Employment pathway -- No pathway: Studies completed but unemployed -- Part 2: How conversion factors influenced moving-on pathways -- Educational conversion factors and their effect on labour market opportunities -- Material conversion factors and their influence on moving on -- Social conversion factors and their effects on moving on -- Environmental conversion factors and moving on -- Personal conversion factors and students' moving on. 
505 8 |a Conclusion -- CHAPTER 8 -- Five students' life histories: Conversion factors, functionings and inequality -- Mashudu: Metro -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- Sonto: City -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- Aphiwe: Provincial -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- Madoda: Rural -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- Rimisa: Country -- Life before university -- University access -- University participation -- Moving on from university -- What these five life histories tell us about low-income university students -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 9 -- Access, participation and moving on for low-income youth -- Changing the informational basis for justice judgements -- Practical operationalisation of ideas -- Summary of findings -- Challenges and change -- Concluding thoughts -- Appendix A. Conversion factor tables for Ntando -- Appendix B. Ideas for the measurement of capability domains and functionings -- References -- Index -- Back cover. 
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