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Equity and Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific

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Higher education is conducted at a distinctive nexus of social, economic, political, cultural, and technological forces operating at local, national, regional, and global scales. Given this, it is not surprising that the dramatic reconfiguration of geopolitical and economic landscapes and dynamics over especially the last half-century have precipitated comparable changes in the landscape and dynamics of higher education. This chapter first maps some of the major features on the multidimensional terrain of higher education and identifies four distinct registers or dimensions of equity concerns: access equity, operational equity, structural equity, and contributory equity. Tensions among these concerns suggest the need to reflect critically on the adequacy of identifying equity with comparative equality of opportunity, and the merits of moving away from indexing equity to the difference-leveling effects of minimizing exclusion than to the difference-appreciating effects of enhancing qualities of inclusion.

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    Peter D. Hershock

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  1. Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California, USA

    Christopher S. Collins

  2. The HEAD Foundation, Singapore, Singapore

    Molly N.N. Lee

  3. Education Department, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    John N. Hawkins

  4. Education Department, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

    Deane E. Neubauer

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Hershock, P.D. (2016). Equity and Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific. In: Collins, C., Lee, M., Hawkins, J., Neubauer, D. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Asia Pacific Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-48739-1_22

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