Dr Chima Anyadike-Danes chima.m.anyadike-danes@durham.ac.uk
Post Doctoral Research Associate
Is a Foundation Year Programme to
an A-Level as a 7-UP is to a Sprite: Exploring an Attempt to Diversify
an English University
Anyadike-Danes, Chima Michael
Authors
Abstract
What contribution might social anthropology make to our understanding of the consequences of successive British governments’ attempts over the last two decades to widen participation in England’s universities? In this article I answer this question by examining a foundation year programme at a university in the nation’s former industrial heartland. Drawing on anthropological literature on rites of passage I analyse working-class participants’ experiences of this admission process. Its creators envisaged it as a rite that would seamlessly assimilate ‘diverse students’ into the university body, but I argue that it does not do so. Instead, as is to be expected from a rite, it marks participants. It thus prevents them from ever just being students in the eyes of themselves and their fellows.
Citation
an English University. Teaching Anthropology, 10(1), 85-94. https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i1.585
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Online Publication Date | Aug 3, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | Mar 31, 2021 |
Journal | Teaching Anthropology |
Print ISSN | 1537-1751 |
Electronic ISSN | 1941-4161 |
Publisher | Wiley |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 85-94 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.22582/ta.v10i1.585 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1250461 |
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