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- Title
Widening access to higher education through family-centred, summer school provision: a critical reflection.
- Authors
Richardson, Mark
- Abstract
In the UK, most higher and further education (HE and FE) institutions now hold some form of summer school activity for widening participation. However, the contention in this paper is that while these seem to focus primarily on those considered to be 'non-traditional' learners of school age - or those about to leave mainstream, compulsory education - this attention seems to miss the opportunity for families of 'non-traditional' backgrounds also to engage in HE through motivational and incentive-based learning. In this paper, introduction of a recent project carried out at the University of Wales, Newport, will support this contention by offering a reflection on a specifically family-based approach to summer school activity. The Centre for Community and Lifelong Learning at the University of Wales, Newport, organises the 'Community-to-Campus' summer school, which offers free places for families already studying at community venues, to continue residential study - for three days - on a university campus. This will suggest that such an approach to widening participation - incorporating as it does a family learning approach - has significant ability to extend positive experiences of campus-based HE to the whole family - challenging family inherited, perceptual barriers in the process.
- Subjects
NEWPORT (Wales); WALES; ADULT education; HIGHER education; SUMMER schools; COMPULSORY education; UNIVERSITY of Wales College, Newport; COLLEGE campuses
- Publication
Widening Participation & Lifelong Learning, 2010, Vol 12, Issue 3, p60
- ISSN
1466-6529
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5456/WPLL.12.3.60