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The Perpetuation of Class Inequity through Policy
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ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that a better understanding of the higher education policy arena may ensure that the policy system changes to incorporate the values and needs of stakeholders concerned about the education of economically diverse students. It focuses on three propositions namely allocation, feedback, origins, to explore the socially constructed nature of higher education policy. Understanding the socially constructed nature of policy reveals how changeable policy is. The examples of policy narrative myths included in this chapter demonstrate how distorting unquestioned policy narratives can be. The chapter also focuses on the socially constructed nature of policy to stress the ultimately changeable nature of rules and distributions. It argues that the role social construction plays in policy making is encouraging for the prospect of change. However, to address this inequality problem, large-scale thinking is also appropriate. As think tanks and advocacy groups have long understood, a key to large-scale change is policy makers.