Contemporary Dynamics of Student Experience and Belonging in Higher - Educatio

This rigorous edited collection discusses complex processes related to student experience and belonging in contemporary higher education worldwide. It will be a key resource for scholars, practitioners and researchers of higher education, education policy and leadership, educational studies and research.

List of contents

Introduction to contemporary dynamics of student experience and belonging in higher education1. Cartographies of belonging: mapping nomadic narratives of first-year students
2. Racialized retellings: (un)ma(r)king space and place on college campuses 3. Reordering student affairs: from minority absorption to a radical new 4. The costs of 'free listening': negotiating the moral economy of the university 5. Precarious success and the conspiracy of reflexivity: questioning the 'habitus transformation' of working-class students at elite universities 6. The depersonalised consumer subjectivity and its effect on fostering meaningful relationships between undergraduates and academics in higher education 7. Individualised and instrumentalised? Critical thinking, students and the optics of possibility within neoliberal higher education

About the author

Rille Raaper is Associate Professor at Durham University's School of Education, UK. Rille's research centres around university students. She has conducted numerous research projects and published widely in the areas of higher education policy and practice and its impact on students as learners, citizens and political agents.

Product details

• Authors: Rille (Durham University Raaper
• Assisted by: Rille Raaper (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032627427
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3262742-7
• No. of pages: 123
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Research, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, Educational psychology, Organization & management of education, Educational administration and organization, Teaching skills and techniques, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching skills & techniques, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Higher education, tertiary education, Multicultural education, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher