Widening Access through Openness in Higher Education in the Developing World: A Bourdieusian Field Analysis of Experiences from the National Open University of Nigeria

Autor/inn/en	Olakulehin, Felix Kayode; Singh, Gurmit
Titel	Widening Access through Openness in Higher Education in the Developing World: A Bourdieusian Field Analysis of Experiences from the National Open University of Nigeria
Quelle	In: Open Praxis, 5 (2013) 1, S.31-40 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1369-9997
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Developing Nations; Access to Education; Open Universities; Open Education; Educational Objectives; Educational Practices; Educational Opportunities; Outcomes of Education; Educational Philosophy; Educational Development; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Offene Universität; Offene Erziehung; Offener Unterricht; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Bildungspraxis; Bildungsangebot; Bildungschance; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Bildungsentwicklung
Abstract	Bourdieu has argued that higher education is a field that reproduces social inequality, thus complicating how openness widens access to higher education in the developing world. Drawing on the experiences of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), this paper critically analyses and evaluates the rationale, approach, difficulties, opportunities, outcomes and benefits of NOUN's experience in widening access to higher education in Nigeria using Bourdieu's field theory. We argue that the success of efforts for openness in higher education in a developing world context involves steering the contradictory tensions of openness and access across competing policy and practice fields. We offer this theorisation as a future social theoretical agenda for reflexive research for improving the effectiveness of praxis to widen access through openness in higher education in the developing world. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01