Everyday Mobile Belonging - Theorising Higher Education Student Mobilities

This book presents a framework for a new kind of thinking about student mobilities and belonging, which foregrounds the everyday and rhythmic dimensions of students'' experiences. Using case studies from a variety of UK higher education contexts, this book develops the concepts of everyday mobilities and mobile belongingness. The authors draw on key ideas about the changing characteristics of UK higher education and of student belonging, exploring the central themes of the sensory, affective and emotional aspects of student mobilities; contested and mobile belongings; and the significance of everyday life, to bring a new dimension to the literature on inter and intra-national student mobilities. This is achieved through an examination of the innovative ways in which social science methods have been (re)imagined through mobility, with a specific focus on youth and education. Kirsty Finn and Mark Holton bring together theory and research from the fields of education studies, geography and sociology, and combine this with a discussion of rich empirical data from three UK-based research projects to set out an explicitly mobility-centred approach to 21st-century student experiences. The findings can be recognised globally because they synthesise debates about travel and transport, students'' sense of place and feelings of belonging, and the interrelationship between physical, social and virtual mobilities that higher education brings together. In doing so, this text offers a coherent and grounded campaign for theory and research within studies of higher education that foreground multiple mobilities and diverse feelings of belonging.>

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• Authors: Paul Ashwin, Dr Kirsty Finn, Dr Kirsty (University of Glasgow Finn, Dr Kirsty Holton Finn, Kirsty Finn, Kirsty (Lancaster University Finn, Kirsty (University of Glasgow Finn, Dr Mark Holton, Dr Mark (University of Plymouth Holton, Mark Holton, Mark (University of Plymouth Holton
• Assisted by: Paul Ashwin (Editor), Manja Klemencic (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781350041080
• ISBN: 978-1-350-04108-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Understanding Student Experien; Understanding Student Experien; Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); EDUCATION / Research, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Research methods: general, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher