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020 _a9781928502401
020 _z9781928502395
035 _a(OCoLC)1337900935
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100 1 _aWalker, Melanie.
245 1 0 _aLow-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa :
_bOpportunities, obstacles and outcomes
264 1 _aCape Town, South Africa :
_bAfrican Minds,
_c2022.
264 3 _aBaltimore, Md. :
_bProject MUSE,
_c2022
264 4 _c©2022.
300 _a1 online resource (212 pages).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
505 0 _aCover -- 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 0 _aEmotional 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 0 _aConclusion -- 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.
506 0 _aOpen Access
_fUnrestricted online access
_2star
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 7 _aStudents
_xEconomic conditions.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01136067
650 7 _aEducation, Higher
_xEconomic aspects.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst00903047
650 0 _aStudents
_zSouth Africa
_xEconomic conditions.
650 0 _aEducation, Higher
_xEconomic aspects
_zSouth Africa.
651 7 _aSouth Africa.
_2fast
_0(OCoLC)fst01204616
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
700 1 _aMathebula, Mikateko
700 1 _aMclean, Monica
710 2 _aProject Muse.
_edistributor
830 0 _aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 4 0 _zFull text available:
_uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/101916/
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