Theorising multiply disadvantaged young people’s challenges in accessing higher education

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dc.contributor.authorWalker, Melanie
dc.contributor.authorMkwananzi, Faith
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-21T09:47:32Z
dc.date.available2016-07-21T09:47:32Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis paper sketches an innovative conceptualisation of disadvantaged youth, shaped dialogically by the interactions of theorising and data from a case study at Orange Farm informal settlement in South Africa in 2013. The study focused on the challenges for the young people in this area in accessing higher education. Drawing on Sen’s and Nussbaum’s capability approach, complemented by a theorisation of vulnerability by Misztal and of oppression by Young, the study illustrates how the concepts should be interconnected to generate a framework for understanding the experiences of multiply disadvantaged youth, as well as issues of equity for them in accessing HE. The paper highlights the need to understand young people’s experiences and aspirations using multidisciplinary theorising, in conversation with empirical lives. Overall, advantage is understood as having the freedoms (or capabilities) to live a life each person has reason to value, with genuine opportunities for secure functionings now and in the future. A disadvantaged life, by contrast, would have less or neither.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationWalker, M., & Mkwananzi, F. (2015). Theorising multiply disadvantaged young people's challenges in accessing higher education. Perspectives in Education, 33(1), 12-25.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258-2236 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2519-593X (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/3711
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of Education, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderFaculty of Education, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectHigher educationen_ZA
dc.subjectYouthen_ZA
dc.subjectDisadvantageen_ZA
dc.subjectCapability approachen_ZA
dc.subjectVulnerabilitiesen_ZA
dc.subjectOppressionen_ZA
dc.titleTheorising multiply disadvantaged young people’s challenges in accessing higher educationen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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