Enhancing the Freedom to Flourish in Higher Education: Participation, Equality and Capabilities

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Inequality in higher education -- Inequality and the lives of students -- Mapping unequal participation in international higher education -- Overview of inequality in international higher education -- Inequality and higher education -- Inequality and higher education in the global South -- Inequality, massification and South African higher education -- Trade-offs and resources -- The dysfunctional public school system -- Race, institutional demographics and transformation -- Individual deficit or structural inequality? -- Researching inequality and student lives -- Navigating the book chapters -- 2 Structures of unequal participation -- Structural inequality in global higher education -- Structural inequality in South African higher education -- The deficit approach, resources and massification -- The deficit approach and South African higher education -- A deficit approach and academic provision -- Teaching and learning constraints -- Academic support programmes -- Resisting a deficit approach -- Structural relations of power -- Recognising student resources and agency -- The intersection of race, gender, class and participation -- Conclusion -- 3 The capability approach and inequality in higher education -- The capability approach and structural injustice -- A capability approach to higher education research -- A capability critique of neoliberal higher education -- Capability framework -- Capabilities and functionings -- Education as freedom -- Democratic participation -- Agency -- Conversion factors -- Adaptive preference -- Well-being -- Freire and education as freedom -- Resisting the banking system -- Fraser and the capability approach -- Redistribution -- Recognition