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Access and Participation in Tertiary Education. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Oct 2008, Pages: 96
The work focuses on students from low decile
backgrounds participating in university education.
The review of literature in the book provides a
brief overview of Bourdieu’s theory of social,
cultural and economic capital. The research uses
Bourdieu and other existing literature as both a
starting point, and a reference point that locates
it within the field of sociology and education.
Nash’s work in the New Zealand context offers useful
connections between his findings, this current work,
and also provides at times mediation between the
theory of Bourdieu and the findings in the research.
The chapters in the book reflect themes that arose
during the interviews: policy, schools and career
teachers, family and peer groups. Students and
staff alike seemed to show a clear understanding of
societal expectations of educational outcomes. The
implications of the findings in this study broadly
include concerns over the way participation is
counted, access to financial assistance while
studying, and the quality of advice being given by
career teachers.
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