Affirmative Action Matters (International Studies In Higher Education)

Affirmative action. Discrimination positive. Reservations. Quotas. Such policies aim to increase access to and equity within higher education. How do different national and social contexts affect how affirmative action policy is conceptualized, discussed, justified, and designed? Scholars from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, France, India, South Africa and the United States address this central question by seeking to understand how unique national contexts shape affirmative action for students in higher education around the world.

• | Author: Laura Dudley-Jenkins|Michele S. Moses
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Apr 04, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 041550807X
• | ISBN-13: 9780415508070