OISE Brown Bag: Brendan Cantwell

Abstract: Participation in higher education has swelled in every high and middle-income country in the world, and there is a now a global tendency towards “high participation systems of higher education.” Since 2013, Brendan Cantwell has worked with Simon Marginson from the Institute of Education in London and Anna Smolentseva from the Higher School of Economics in Moscow on a wide-ranging project to understand the dynamics of high participation systems. The result of this work is an edited volume that will be published late in 2018 by Oxford University Press. The book, which includes contributions from 17 scholars working in 9 different countries, advances 17 propositions about the drivers of participation, system governance and structure, and social equity. Eight national case studies then examined the propositions. In this presentation, Brendan Cantwell will present the book’s overall findings and discuss the conceptual, methodological, and procedural considerations that went into developing this comparative research project.

Learn more about Dr. Brendan Cantwell here.