Inclusion Diversity Equity & Access

Edited by:
Pinar Ayyildiz, Ankara Medipol University
Mehmet Durnali, Zonguldak Bulent Ecevit University

A volume in the series: Contemporary Issues in Higher Education. Editor(s): John D Branch, University of Michigan.

In Press 2025

Equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion are among the ‘hot topics’ of current management discourse and need to be handled and re-situated within the sphere of education in a careful fashion, as is the case with other disciplines and types of study. To that end, these topics should be explored and understood to the fullest extent by the relevant stakeholders in higher education: educators, practitioners, policy makers and education researchers. In particular at the tertiary level, a level that is constantly evolving due to globalization and internationalization, along with numerous other factors, these concepts require reviewing with novel understandings and approaches.

In this direction, there remains space for new studies, commentaries, and findings, especially those that address the situations in/for dissimilar bodies e.g, higher education institutions in developing countries. By focusing on equality, diversity, equity, and inclusion through the lens of higher education in developing countries this book can pave the way in targeting a number of ‘notyet-solved’ controversial issues such as gender issues, difficulty in accessing higher education, and the problems that international students experience, alongside the evolving topics such as the status of learners with special needs and/or the experiences of those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

CONTENTS
Inclusion in Higher Education—Lessons From England: The Power of Ideas—An Exploration of English Higher Education Discursive Institutionalism, Catherine Ann Simon. Social Justice Leadership in Higher Education and Turkiye, Duran Mavi. A Review of Pre-Entry Programs: The Case of Oshakati Campus, University of Namibia, Elizabeth Ndeukumwa Ngololo. Alienation in Higher Education in Turkiye, Ezgi Şerefoğlu Kaya and Fatih Şahin. Inequality in Higher Education: Namibian Context, Marja N. Mushaandja-Mufeti, Elina I. Tobias, and Anna N. Hako. Developments in Teacher Education in Malaysia: Policy Borrowing and HE Marginalization, Mark T. Gibson and Deborah Outhwaite. Turkish Higher Education Assessment Process: Equality or Fairness? Recep Gür. Contributions of Internationalization Policies in Higher Education to Turkish Universities, Taner Atmaca and Hamit Özen. Women in STEM in Higher Education in the Context of Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access, Adem Yilmaz. Gender Equality in Higher Education in Turkey, Arzu Saldıray. Experimenting With Fugitive Practices: Gesturing Toward Decolonial Futures, Carolyne J. White. Equity in Turkish Higher Education, Seda Nur Kurt and Gökhan Arastaman. Comparison of Higher Education in Developing Countries With Turkiye in Terms of Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, and Access, Pinar Ayyildiz and Mehmet Durnali. Exploring Intersectionality in English Language Teaching: A Systematic Literature Review, Tahmineh Khalili and Seyyed Mohammad Reza Adel. Why the Massification of Higher Education Does Not Mean Less Inequalities? A Student Welfare-Centered Analysis, Mehmet Öçal, Tuncer Fidan, Pinar Ayyildiz, and Türker Kurt. Managing Diversity in Higher Education: Trend? Need? or Tren[d]eed? Ahmet Yirmibes. About the Editors