Reimagining the Higher Education Student (eBook, PDF)

Constructing and Contesting Identities
Redaktion: Brooks, Rachel; O'Shea, Sarah

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000358766
• Artikelnr.: 61097113

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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-s¿a: 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