This open access book examines the structural and cultural factors that explain the persistence of an attainment gap between white and Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) students in UK universities. So-called deficit approaches have long represented the orthodoxy in higher education strategy-making, yet they overlook the structural and institutional factors that reproduce attainment gaps. Whereas students already in possession of the right academic capital are made to feel validated and empowered in their learning, BAME students particularly those from working class backgrounds may feel marginalised by dominant hierarchical cultures on campus.
This book provides an important and unique contribution to the study of racial equity in higher education. Its chapters provide a breadth and depth of analyses which help explain the roots of the attainment gap, while offering reflections and commentaries on the necessary steps that universities must take in order to ensure equityfor students from all backgrounds.
This book is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
1 Editors introduction: Race and the awarding gap.- 2 Race, class, and
student choice: Negotiating competing rationalities.- 3 Becoming a higher
education student: Managing expectations and adapting to independent
learning.- 4 BAME students extracurricular belonging at university: building
networks, representation, and capital.- 5 Bringing vocational qualifications
into the inclusivity agenda: The case of the BTEC.- 6 The role of motivation
in student engagement and attainment.- 7 Doing the work: Institutional
policy, research, and practice for closing the white-BAME awarding gap.- 8
Academic Advising in the massified university: Facilitating meaningful
staff-student interactions.- 9 Reflections on teaching and negotiating race
in social work and sociology.- 10 Race equity and inclusive curriculum:
Diversity Mark and making a lasting impression on the institution.- 11
Editors Conclusion
Alexander Hensby is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Kent, UK. Barbara Adewumi is Senior Research Fellow in Student Success at the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Kent, UK..
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