Equity in Higher Education

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Equity in Higher Education?

• For Cultural and Social Capital in the Times of
  Work an the Farewell of the Work Based Societies

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Now For Real - EHE.

• Complex question
• Q equalities and inequalities that are just
  (Rawls, Sen, Walzer, Nozick)
• Not simple equalities (Walzer)
• Formal equality necessary but not enough
• Bologna rising enrolment
• 60/300/1.6 (FR) 2, 16, 90 (SI)

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Cultural Capital

• Differences at the point of tertiary education
• Less of the students from the lower strata
• Primary effects CC (Bourdieu)
• Secondary effects (Boudon, Goldthorpe)
• Segmentation (Ringer)
• Lower strata less prestigious studies
• Social reproduction is still in place..

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Measures needed..

• Early childhood interventions in language
• Refined and restricted code spoken language
  (Bernstein)
• Intensive work with symbolically deprived
• Targeted approach, differentiated financially
• The aim is Capabilities enabling functionings in
  accordance with ones concept of life (Sen)
• Key for HE Equity paradox??

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And yet.

• Each level of education
• Structure of education biased toward middle
  class visible and invisible pedagogy
• HE institutions
• Compensate for the lack of CC (Renaut)
• First cycle of Bologna contemp. Gymnasium?
• Q Student organization investment in
  extracurricular activities?

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Social Capital..

• Education diploma employment? (Hayek, Walzer)
• Formal equality state regulations quotas??
• Responsibility of HE institutions
• Alumni associations
• Extra curricular activities adding to education
• Student organization and SC?

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Paradigmatic shift..

• Capitalist work ethics
• Changes in the work societies
• Instrumental (work industry oriented)
• Instrumental non industry and employment
  oriented
• Non-instrumental fun and joy non-market
  oriented (Russell, Malevic, Gorz, Marx) - growing
• Emerging society is shifting ratio between work
  and free time (Rifkin, Sue, Latouche, Aries
  non-growth.)
• Equity oriented education should shift too
• Less specific less vocational
• More general yet not only abstract