Affirmative Action Matters

Creating opportunities for students around the world

242 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Affirmative action. Discrimination positive. Reservations. Quotas. Such policies aim to increase access to and equity within higher education. How do different national and social contexts affect how affirmative action policy is conceptualized, discussed, justified, and designed? Scholars from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, India, South Africa and the United States address this central question by seeking to understand how unique national contexts shape affirmative action for students in higher education around the world.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik / Erziehungswissenschaften
• ISBN: 9780415750127
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.10.2016
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Routledge
• Herausgegeben von: Michele S Moses, Laura Dudley Jenkins