This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module covers:
The historical development of inclusivity within higher education.
Theories of inclusion, widening participation, and equality and diversity.
Institutional and national inclusion policies and their impact upon higher education.
Current challenges for an inclusive university.
A critical appraisal of inclusivity in practice at individual, institutional and national level.
10 hours
Spring
Students will be expected to give a twenty minute presentation (including ten minutes for questions) and submit a 5000 word critical essay. Specific topics for the presentation and titles for the essay will be negotiated with the course tutor during individual tutorials.
The presentation and the essay will cover separate theoretical areas.
For the presentation, students will be expected to introduce a peer-reviewed journal article (or section from such an article) to the group alongside a critique of the theoretical approaches selected by the author(s). This is a formative assessment and will not be credit-bearing.
The presentation will assess SLO 11.1, 11.3; GLO 12.1, 12.2, 12.3
For the essay, students will be expected to identify a relevant topic in HE research and critically analyse a range of theoretical approaches to addressing this topic. This is a summative assessment, it is 100% credit bearing.
The essay will assess SLO 11.1; 11.2; 11.3.; 11.4
Participants wishing to use this module to demonstrate achievement of elements of UKPSF should include a Fellowship declaration on the template provided in the module guide.
Farmer, V. L., (2002) Meeting the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Higher Education, Wyndham Hall Press.
Dyhouse, C. (1995) No Distinction of Sex? Women in British Universities 1870 – 1939, Routledge
Tehmina, B. and Tomlinson, S. (2014) Social Inclusion and Higher Education, Policy Press.
Adams, M. and Brown, S. (2006) Towards Inclusive Learning in Higher Education, Routledge.
Duke, C. (2005) The Tertiary Moment: What road to inclusive higher education? NIACE.
Thomas, L. and Cooper, M. (2000) Changing the Culture of the Campus: Towards an Inclusive Higher Education, Staffordshire University Press.
Archer, L. Hutchings, M and Ross, A. (2003) Higher Education and Social Class: Issues of exclusion and inclusion, RoutledgeFalmer.
Gorard, S. et al. (2007) Overcoming the barriers to higher education, Trentham Books.
Kahn, S. and Pavlich, D. (2000) Academic Freedom and the Inclusive University, UBC Press
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
Demonstrate a broad understanding of the social, political and educational developments that have resulted in national and institutional initiatives designed to promote an inclusive higher education sector through critical engagement with relevant literature and theory. (UKPSF V4)
Critically analyse and evaluate recent government and institutional policy documents designed to promote inclusion within higher education (UKPSF K6)
Demonstrate a broad understanding of issues relevant to the promotion of inclusion (eg. equality and diversity, widening participation and student support). (UKPSF V1)
Critically evaluate the impact of issues relevant to the promotion of inclusion upon your own academic practice in areas such as curriculum reform, pedagogy or the student experience in relation to inclusion policies. (UKPSF V2)
Demonstrate an ability to reflect critically upon HE practice
Demonstrate an ability to evaluate critically HE policy
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