What is it about?
Using Marx's notion of Chaotic Conceptions, this paper explores how "Student Engagement" and "Non- Traditional Students" an be used discursively to perform ideological work, disguising interests and inequities.
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Student Engagement is very "sexy" to policy-makers currently, and any institutions around the world are being required to develop interventions to prove, or improve, their student engagement. Likewise, widening access / participation, transformation, and social justice policies continue to enjoy attention. This paper helps to think through the implications of using these terms "chaotically".
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This page is a summary of: Negotiating Contestations and ‘Chaotic Conceptions’: Engaging ‘Non-Traditional’ Students in Higher Education, Higher Education Quarterly, June 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/hequ.12071.
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