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Exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of Spanish universities. An asymmetric dual model
Higher education across the world is currently in the throes of assuming a commitment to diversity. However, certain critical positions maintain that such evolution is still guided by market principles. Within such a context, this paper explores what attention is given to diversity in Spanish univer...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7970326/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33748500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06450 |
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author | Álvarez-Castillo, José-Luis Hernández-Lloret, Carmen-María González-González, Hugo Espino-Díaz, Luis Fernández-Caminero, Gemma |
author_facet | Álvarez-Castillo, José-Luis Hernández-Lloret, Carmen-María González-González, Hugo Espino-Díaz, Luis Fernández-Caminero, Gemma |
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description | Higher education across the world is currently in the throes of assuming a commitment to diversity. However, certain critical positions maintain that such evolution is still guided by market principles. Within such a context, this paper explores what attention is given to diversity in Spanish university policies and practices and how it relates to key productivity indicators. To do so, a study with a descriptive and correlational design was conducted, based on analysing institutional documents and surveying chief diversity officers, techniques which provided evidence about diversity philosophy and practices, respectively. The results revealed at least an average level of institutionalisation of diversity, although it did not demonstrate, in most of the areas, any association with indicators derived from a consolidated ranking by productivity in Spain. The conclusion is that Spanish universities have adopted an asymmetric dual model, in which neo-liberal ideas maintain their hegemony while, although subordinately, certain innovations have been consolidated in parallel in order to protect a number of vulnerable groups under the rhetoric of equity and social justice. |
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spelling | pubmed-79703262021-03-19 Exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of Spanish universities. An asymmetric dual model Álvarez-Castillo, José-Luis Hernández-Lloret, Carmen-María González-González, Hugo Espino-Díaz, Luis Fernández-Caminero, Gemma Heliyon Research Article Higher education across the world is currently in the throes of assuming a commitment to diversity. However, certain critical positions maintain that such evolution is still guided by market principles. Within such a context, this paper explores what attention is given to diversity in Spanish university policies and practices and how it relates to key productivity indicators. To do so, a study with a descriptive and correlational design was conducted, based on analysing institutional documents and surveying chief diversity officers, techniques which provided evidence about diversity philosophy and practices, respectively. The results revealed at least an average level of institutionalisation of diversity, although it did not demonstrate, in most of the areas, any association with indicators derived from a consolidated ranking by productivity in Spain. The conclusion is that Spanish universities have adopted an asymmetric dual model, in which neo-liberal ideas maintain their hegemony while, although subordinately, certain innovations have been consolidated in parallel in order to protect a number of vulnerable groups under the rhetoric of equity and social justice. Elsevier 2021-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7970326/ /pubmed/33748500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06450 Text en © 2021 The Author(s) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Research Article Álvarez-Castillo, José-Luis Hernández-Lloret, Carmen-María González-González, Hugo Espino-Díaz, Luis Fernández-Caminero, Gemma Exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of Spanish universities. An asymmetric dual model |
title | Exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of Spanish universities. An asymmetric dual model |
title_full | Exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of Spanish universities. An asymmetric dual model |
title_fullStr | Exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of Spanish universities. An asymmetric dual model |
title_full_unstemmed | Exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of Spanish universities. An asymmetric dual model |
title_short | Exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of Spanish universities. An asymmetric dual model |
title_sort | exploring the status of diversity in policies and practices of spanish universities. an asymmetric dual model |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7970326/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33748500 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2021.e06450 |
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