https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Index en-au 5 Writing the field of equity: special issue https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39350 Wed 28 Aug 2024 10:36:41 AEST ]]> The inedito viavel (untested feasibility) of practitioner imaginations: reflections on the challenges and possibilities of dialogic praxis for equity and widening participation https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:29255 praxis, employing Nancy Fraser’s three-dimensional framework of social justice, and implementing Burke’s Pedagogical Methodology, this practitioner-developed paper investigates the dynamics of a critical and reflexive approach to re-imagining university outreach and classroom teaching practices. This introspective work acknowledges the ethically fraught terrain of equity and widening participation outreach. It resists positioning stakeholders of practice as research participants, instead folding the research gaze back onto the practitioner-authors and their ‘unfinishedness’. Dialogic relation, critical reflection, and then interrogation of recorded versions of these relations and reflections, are the main methods of enquiry as we extensively contextualise and interrogate our practices. The dynamics producing and/or limiting the possibility of praxis that emerge include enabling and disabling power relations, resistance of hegemonic time structures, and co-developing dispositions of critical hope and unfinishedness to sustain provocation of the practitioner imagination. We carefully advocate for developing a generative instability; a contextually aware set of practices and meta-practices; a praxis that is continually and explicitly (re)situated in open, social, messy programmatic contexts.]]> Wed 24 May 2023 11:54:33 AEST ]]> Widening participation practice and research in the ‘Third Space’ https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39412 Wed 15 Jun 2022 09:25:27 AEST ]]> Connecting Research, Policy and Practice: Praxis-based studies of widening participation in higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39414 Wed 15 Jun 2022 08:46:35 AEST ]]> Overcoming adversity: The strengths of care leavers in Australian higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39410 Wed 15 Jun 2022 08:41:55 AEST ]]> Supporting students from equity groups: experiences of staff and considerations for institutions https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:50923 Wed 13 Mar 2024 19:07:07 AEDT ]]> Obscenity and fabrication in equity and widening participation methodologies https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:40822 Wed 13 Mar 2024 08:47:44 AEDT ]]> On ‘being first’: the case for first-generation status in Australian higher education equity policy https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:40827 Wed 13 Mar 2024 08:04:03 AEDT ]]> Evaluation for equity: reclaiming evaluation by striving towards counter-hegemonic democratic practices https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:44741 Wed 13 Mar 2024 07:52:00 AEDT ]]> Sociological insights: Designing pedagogically sound blended learning programs in enabling contexts https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:55659 Wed 12 Jun 2024 19:00:38 AEST ]]> Widening student participation in higher education through online enabling education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:18252 Wed 11 Apr 2018 15:57:33 AEST ]]> Getting into uni in England and Australia: who you know, what you know or knowing the ropes? https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26410 Wed 11 Apr 2018 13:04:25 AEST ]]> Family and social capital for the success of non-traditional students in higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35656 Wed 02 Oct 2019 12:09:55 AEST ]]> The invisibility of academic reading as social practice and its implications for equity in higher education: a scoping study https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:42404 Tue 23 Aug 2022 08:48:19 AEST ]]> Conceptualising and Building Trust to Enhance the Engagement and Achievement of Under-Served Students https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:52100 Tue 18 Jun 2024 13:43:10 AEST ]]> 'Hard' and 'soft' aspects of learning as investment: opening up the neo-liberal view of a programme with 'high' levels of attrition https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:25557 Tue 17 Jan 2017 10:54:19 AEDT ]]> Policy misrecognitions and paradoxes: developing more contextually attuned access and equity policies in Australian higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41936 Tue 16 Aug 2022 11:57:50 AEST ]]> New possibilities for engaging school teachers in widening participation: professional development to support student aspirations https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:54586 Tue 14 May 2024 15:37:24 AEST ]]> The inedito viavel (untested feasibility) of practitioner imaginations: Reflections on the challenges and possibilities of dialogic praxis for equity and widening participation https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39418 Tue 14 Jun 2022 16:02:08 AEST ]]> The role of higher education in facilitating social mobility https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39419 Tue 14 Jun 2022 15:43:20 AEST ]]> Fairness and inclusion: Online learning as an enabler of Australian higher education policies aimed at student equity and social justice https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39396 Tue 07 Jun 2022 20:04:35 AEST ]]> Increasing regional student participation in higher education through innovative university outreach https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39392 Tue 07 Jun 2022 19:50:02 AEST ]]> What are we missing? Exploring meso-level institutional intervention to address persistent inequities in Australian higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39390 Tue 07 Jun 2022 19:39:54 AEST ]]> Asking the right questions: Opportunities and challenges of survey methods in widening participation research https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39389 Tue 07 Jun 2022 19:32:47 AEST ]]> Tales from the borderland: Enabling students’ experiences of preparation for higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39387 Tue 07 Jun 2022 19:20:16 AEST ]]> Students with Disability: Beyond reasonable adjustments https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39383 Tue 07 Jun 2022 18:52:10 AEST ]]> The sphere of influence that university outreach programs have on rural youth aspirations toward tertiary education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39382 Tue 07 Jun 2022 18:46:47 AEST ]]> Marking as emotional labour: A discussion of the affective impact of assessment feedback on enabling educators https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39375 Tue 07 Jun 2022 12:56:23 AEST ]]> Degrees of “being first”: toward a nuanced understanding of first-generation entrants to higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:38783 Tue 06 Jun 2023 16:07:12 AEST ]]> Spaces of solace and world-building: a praxis-based approach to Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA) outreach for equity and widening participation in higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:34911 relational dynamics with the capability of disrupting contextual power relations to create spaces of solace and collective world-building. Using a Pedagogical Methodology, an academic, a practitioner-researcher and two university students develop a collective praxis to co-theorise the underlying social dynamics of various CAPA outreach practices. Focus groups led by the two student authors and conducted with other university students directly involved in recent outreach functioned as our primary formal method of data collection. The underlying, generative dynamics identified relate to the collaborative nature of CAPA practice, the way mentors/teachers as CAPA 'practitioners' carry embodied knowledge of practice, and the non-text-based character of much CAPA practice. These themes merge under the overarching theme of world-building in recognition of the ways arts-related education practice can transcend simplistic notions of 'creativity' to a more fundamental reminder that we can create. We acknowledge that the rich spaces this form of outreach can produce are also vulnerable to deep injuries of misrecognition and shame, and advocate for a pedagogy of creative care.]]> Tue 03 Sep 2019 18:18:25 AEST ]]> Policy implications for equity, gender and widening participation in higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41514 Thu 29 Sep 2022 13:12:35 AEST ]]> When the journey is as important as the destination: Time-averaged retention as an alternate measure of student engagement and program impact https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:45329 Thu 27 Oct 2022 07:27:08 AEDT ]]> Care, hope and resistance: Reshaping teacher professional learning for inclusive education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39407 Thu 16 Jun 2022 16:03:15 AEST ]]> Re/imagining widening participation: A praxis-based framework https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39403 Thu 16 Jun 2022 15:44:39 AEST ]]> An inter/national strategy for developing more equitable policies and practices in higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39406 Thu 16 Jun 2022 15:11:25 AEST ]]> Re/cognising the fr/Ames of university equity outreach: a cautionary tale of unintended consequences in Australian Equity and Widening Participation policy, practice and evaluation https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:38556 Thu 14 Mar 2024 12:29:50 AEDT ]]> Praxis https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:44193 Thu 13 Oct 2022 10:12:24 AEDT ]]> The relational navigator: a pedagogical reframing of widening educational participation for care-experienced young people https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:49087 Thu 04 May 2023 12:32:54 AEST ]]> Online learning in Australian higher education: opportunities, challenges and transformations https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:41771 Thu 01 Sep 2022 11:56:45 AEST ]]> Art for a few: exclusions and misrecognitions in higher education admissions practices https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31858 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:43:11 AEDT ]]> Widening participation in higher education: the role of professional and social class identities and commitments https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:31862 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:43:09 AEDT ]]> Improving academic outcomes of enabling students in undergraduate nursing https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:20793 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:05:59 AEDT ]]> Excavating widening participation policy in Australian higher education: subject positions, representational effects, emotion https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:20564 Sat 24 Mar 2018 08:02:36 AEDT ]]> Travels in extreme social mobility: how first-in-family students find their way into and through medical education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:30735 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:39:25 AEDT ]]> Institutional statements of commitment and widening participation policy in Australia https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:28141 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:36:39 AEDT ]]> Widening the participation of disadvantaged students in engineering https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:26454 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:27:12 AEDT ]]> 1974-1976: the seeds of longevity in a pathway to tertiary participation at University of Newcastle, NSW https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:23188 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:10:29 AEDT ]]> University choosers and refusers: social theory, ideas of "choice" and implications for widening participation https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:24048 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:09:36 AEDT ]]> Reframing first-generation entry: how the familial habitus shapes aspirations for higher education among prospective first-generation students https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:38780 Mon 31 Jan 2022 12:57:30 AEDT ]]> Transitional journeys into, and through medical education for First-in-Family (FiF) students: a qualitative interview study https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:32334 Mon 23 Sep 2019 10:19:48 AEST ]]> Re/conceptualising time and temporality: an exploration of time in higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:33880 Mon 21 Jan 2019 15:50:54 AEDT ]]> Stratification and the illusion of equitable choice in accessing higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:40730 within and across the academy. However, this stratification is glossed over in widening participation policy and research. In this paper, we challenge this view by examining young people’s capacities to ‘choose’ university using the heuristic of ‘embedded choosers’ and ‘contingent choosers.’ Our analysis of two school-based case studies highlights the early stratification of students’ post-school choices, conceptualised as a continuum from an absence of choice to a wide array of global choice. We argue that rather than focus on gains in overall enrolment, there is a critical need to address the insidious stratification that is subsumed within the widening participation agenda.]]> Mon 20 May 2024 12:58:43 AEST ]]> They just give us the shiny picture, but I want to know what it's really like: Insights from regional high schools on perceptions of university outreach in South Australia https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:52911 Mon 17 Jun 2024 12:42:54 AEST ]]> Taking University to the Students: Forging Connections and Inclusion Through Regional University Centres (RUCs). A Practice Report https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:52890 Mon 17 Jun 2024 12:33:10 AEST ]]> Live, learn, grow: an autoethnographic examination of the 'navigator' role supporting care leavers at an Australian university https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35065 Mon 17 Jun 2019 13:54:50 AEST ]]> Transformative reimagining: sustainable higher education for equity and social justice https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:54649 Mon 09 Sep 2024 13:34:33 AEST ]]> "Come one, come all": the question of open entry in enabling programs https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:35107 Fri 21 Jun 2019 09:57:56 AEST ]]> Access and equity program provision-evaluation in Australian higher education: a what matters approach https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:42160 Fri 19 Aug 2022 11:15:38 AEST ]]> Opportunities for change: What factors influence non-traditional students to enrol in higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:42166
The current research contributes knowledge by investigating factors that lead students to enrol in higher education. The study aimed to examine how the Australian federal government's 'Widening Participation' agenda has affected Australians' perception of higher education. It is important to examine how enrolment of non-traditional students has changed throughout the last fifty years, whether and how the Widening Participation agenda influenced enrolment of students and students' perceptions of the factors that led to their enrolment post completion of an enabling program. The research argues that the concept of a 'traditional' student enrolled in higher education is outdated and that 'non-traditional' students are now the majority.]]> Fri 19 Aug 2022 09:15:32 AEST ]]> Family and social capital for the success of non-traditional students in higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39401 Fri 17 Jun 2022 12:29:22 AEST ]]> Evaluating equity initiatives in higher education: Processes and challenges from one Australian university https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39402 Fri 17 Jun 2022 12:12:17 AEST ]]> Live, Learn, Grow: An autoethnographic examination of the ‘navigator’ role supporting care leavers at an Australian university https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39405 Fri 17 Jun 2022 11:26:29 AEST ]]> Scoping academic oracy in higher education: knotting together forgotten connections to equity and academic literacies https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:51738 Fri 15 Sep 2023 18:14:39 AEST ]]> Editorial Policy approaches, ‘problems’ and ‘solutions’: Working towards equity of access and widening participation in Australian higher education https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39421 Fri 10 Jun 2022 16:03:46 AEST ]]> Guest Editioral https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39426 Fri 10 Jun 2022 15:54:21 AEST ]]> VET Pathways – an essential element of social justice https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39422 Fri 10 Jun 2022 14:58:09 AEST ]]> Getting into Uni in England and Australia: who you know, what you know or knowing the ropes? https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39429 Fri 10 Jun 2022 14:52:03 AEST ]]> Widening participation as behaviour management: An ethnography of student equity outreach in one Australian low SES school https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39430 Fri 10 Jun 2022 14:23:27 AEST ]]> Cultivating a whole of university response to Pasifika: Research in action for widened participation, retention and completion at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39361 Fri 10 Jun 2022 11:02:25 AEST ]]> Editorial https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39363 Fri 10 Jun 2022 11:02:22 AEST ]]> ‘Inspired by Business’: A case of mentoring among low socio-economic students https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:39367 Fri 10 Jun 2022 10:55:23 AEST ]]> Applicants to medical school: if at first they don't succeed, who tries again and are they successful? https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/ /manager/Repository/uon:36751 Fri 03 Jul 2020 09:33:41 AEST ]]>