Widening access through openness in higher education in the developing world: A Bourdieusian field analysis of experiences from the National Open University of Nigeria

<p>Bourdieu has argued that higher education is a field that reproduces social inequality, thus complicating how openness widens access to higher education in the developing world. Drawing on the experiences of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), this paper critically analyses and...

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Main Authors: Felix Kayode Olakulehin, Gurmit Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) 2013-01-01
Series:Open Praxis
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Online Access:http://www.openpraxis.org/index.php/OpenPraxis/article/view/40