Reimagining the Higher Education Student

Constructing and Contesting Identities
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-42653-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 433 g

Reihe: Research into Higher Education

Drawing on the perspectives of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book challenges dominant constructions of higher education students. Given the increasing number and diversity of such students, the book offers a timely discussion of the implicit and sometimes subtle ways that they are characterised or defined. Topics vary from the ways that curriculum designers ‘imagine’ learners, the complex and evolving nature of student identity work, through to newspaper and TV representations of university attendees.

Reimagining the Higher Education Student seeks to question the accepted or unquestioned nature of ‘being a student’ and instead foreground the contradictions and ‘messiness’ of such ideation. Offering timely insights into the nature of the student experience and providing an understanding of what students may desire from their Higher Education participation, this book covers a range of issues, including:

- Impressions versus the reality of being a Higher Education student

- Portrayals of students in various media including newspapers, TV shows and online

- Generational perspectives on students, and students as family members

It is a valuable resource for academics and students both researching and working in higher education, especially those with a focus on identities, their importance and their constructions.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brooks, Rachel

O'Shea, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Schulen, Schulleitung Universitäten, Hochschulen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Reimagining the higher education student: an introduction 2. On becoming a university student: young people and the ‘illusio’ of higher education 3. "She’s like, ‘you’re a uni student now’": the influence of mother-daughter relationships on the constructions of learner identities of first-in-family girls 4. Constructions of náksèuk-saa: tracing contested imaginings of the Thai university student 5. The shifting subjectification of the ‘widening participation’ student: the affective world of the ‘deserving’ consumer 6. Dispelling the myth of the ‘traditional’ university undergraduate student in the UK 7. Imagining the constructivist student online: actively engaged learner or vulnerable student in need? 8. Dominant higher education imaginaries: forced perspectives, ontological limits and recognising the imaginer’s frame 9. Reframing the ‘traditional learner’ into the ‘partner’ in higher education: conflicting subjectivities and behavioural expectations of the undergraduate ‘student’ in UK universities 10. Constructing the university student in British documentary television 11. Constructing students as family members: contestations in media and policy representations across Europe 12. Student millennials/Millennial students: how the lens of generation constructs understandings of the contemporary HE student 13. Exploring spaces in-between: Reimagining the Chinese student in a transnational higher education context in China 14. Between international student and immigrant: a critical perspective on Angolan and Cape Verdean students in Portugal

Über Autor(innen)

Rachel Brooks is Professor of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK, and an executive editor of the British Journal of Sociology of Education.

Sarah O’Shea is a Professor and Director of the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education (NCSEHE) which is hosted by Curtin University, Australia.