- Title
- What do we know about enabling education as an alternative pathway into Australian higher education, and what more do we need to know? A meta-scoping study
- Creator
- Baker, Sally; Irwin, Evonne; Hamilton, Emma; Birman, Holi
- Relation
- Research Papers in Education Vol. 37, Issue 3, p. 321-343
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2020.1849369
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- In the context of the equity/widening participation policy landscape in Australia, scholarly exploration of alternative pathways into higher education is becoming increasingly important to inform innovative pedagogies, answer complex questions, and improve outcomes and experiences for students. This article focuses on one alternative pathway, ‘enabling’ education, which has a 45-year history in Australia but has, for a variety of reasons, remained on the periphery of mainstream discourses about higher education. In this article, we offer a meta-scoping study of a selection of 88 journal articles and research reports focusing on Australian Enabling education. Through an analysis of who is writing, what is written and how it is written, we attempt to unite enabling education scholars in a conversation about our field and suggest ways forward to better connect with broader conversations about higher education in Australia and move enabling programs, practitioners and the students they serve into the centre stage of Australia’s equity in higher education agenda.
- Subject
- enabling education; alternative pathways into higher education; meta-scoping study; equity; access programs; SDG 4; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1452758
- Identifier
- uon:44493
- Identifier
- ISSN:0267-1522
- Language
- eng
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