The Rhetoric of Widening Participation in Higher Education and Its Impact: Ending the Barriers Against Disabled People

by Navin Kikabhai

Book Overview

This book offers a critical investigation of the exclusion of individuals described as having 'learning difficulties' from participation in higher education. Using a postmodernist framework, the author explores the insights and experiences of a theatre group attempting to develop an undergraduate degree programme in the performing arts. In doing so, he provides a theoretical map of insights into discourses of power and knowledge, and makes transparent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030093662
• ISBN13: 9783030093662
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"