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Close-to-practice-researchers have considered access and widening participation in arts higher education from a range of perspectives. There are some common themes that have emerged. These engage with the tensions that are inherent in educational policy and practice. For example, contradictions have been noted between neoliberal policies that do not seem to value the arts’ subjects and the drives to widen access and participation. Many researchers have also pointed out that there are issues in collecting inappropriate data and that data is sometimes misrepresented. Calls to decolonise the arts curricula are critical of the ethnocentrism of many forms of arts education. Lecturers through their ‘close-to-practice’ research have shown how they are able to disrupt, decentre and dismantle their approaches to arts pedagogies. Academics working in this field continue to resist making the arts exclusive to those with privilege and work towards creating an inclusive and heterogeneous arts higher education.
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Broadhead, S. (2022). Concluding Thoughts. In: Broadhead, S. (eds) Access and Widening Participation in Arts Higher Education. The Arts in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-97450-3_11
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