Student Voices on Inequalities in European Higher Education : Challenges for Theory, Policy and Practice in a Time of Change (Hardcover)

Introduction  Part 1: Working Transnationally: Theory and Methodology  Theorising Student Experience: Structure, Agency and Inequality Ted Fleming and Jose Gonzalez-Monteagudo.  Researching Student Experience  Linden West, Agnieszka Bron and Barbara Merrill  Part 2: Student Voices  Capital Matters: Interrogating the Sociology of Reproduction and the Psychosociality of Transition and Potential Transformation in the UK Linden West.  Critical Theory of Non-Traditional Students’ Experience in Irish Higher Education Fergal Finnegan and Ted Fleming.  Ethnicity and Class Matters: Experiences in Swedish Higher Education Agnieszka Bron, Camilla Thunborg and Eva Edstrom.  Gender and Age: Negotiating and Experiencing Higher Education in England Barbara Merrill.  Non-Traditional Students and Barriers to Participation in German Universities Frank Sch?mer.  Disability and Learner Identities in Scotland John Field and Natalie Morgan-Klein.  Equality and Improving Retention Practices for Non-Traditional Students in Poland Ewa Kurantowicz and Adrianna Nizinska.  Social Inequalities and Family Support for Non-Traditional Students in Andalusia, Spain Jose Gonzalez-Monteagudo and Miguel Angel Ballesteros-Moscosio.  The Unwanted Students: Closure Tendencies in the German University System Peter Alheit  Part 3: Comparative Transnational Dialogue: Conclusions  Enduring Inequalities and Student Agency: Theorising an Agenda for Change in Higher Education Fergal Finnegan, Ted Fleming and Camilla Thunborg.  Retention and Access in Higher Education: Implications for Policy and Practice John Field.