1st Edition

Contemporary Dynamics of Student Experience and Belonging in Higher Education

Edited By Rille Raaper Copyright 2024
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

This timely and rigorous edited collection discusses complex processes related to student experience and belonging in contemporary higher education worldwide. It brings together a variety of recent research that explores contemporary undergraduate student experience in and of higher education. Drawing on the case studies from the UK, the USA, Israel and China and a variety of university... Read more

Introduction to contemporary dynamics of student experience and belonging in higher education
Rille Raaper

1. Cartographies of belonging: mapping nomadic narratives of first-year students
Kelly W. Guyotte, Maureen A. Flint & Keely S. Latopolski

2. Racialized retellings: (un)ma(r)king space and place on college campuses
Maureen A. Flint

3. Reordering student affairs: from minority absorption to a radical new
Laura E. Smithers & Paul W. Eaton

4. The costs of ‘free listening’: negotiating the moral economy of the university
Adi Sapir

5. Precarious success and the conspiracy of reflexivity: questioning the ‘habitus transformation’ of working-class students at elite universities
Jin Jin & Stephen J. Ball

6. The depersonalised consumer subjectivity and its effect on fostering meaningful relationships between undergraduates and academics in higher education
Eloise Symonds

7. Individualised and instrumentalised? Critical thinking, students and the optics of possibility within neoliberal higher education
Emily Danvers

Biography

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.