1st Edition

Rethinking Student Belonging in Higher Education From Bourdieu to Borderlands

By Kate Carruthers Thomas Copyright 2019
98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

98 Pages
by Routledge

Arguing for an understanding of belonging in higher education as relational, complex and negotiated, particularly in reference to non-traditional students, Rethinking Student Belonging in Higher Education counters prevailing assumptions for what it means to belong and how institutional policy is shaped and implemented around traditional students. Bringing theoretical insights into... Read more

Abbreviations; Prologue; Chapter 1: Who belongs in higher education?; Chapter 2: The part-time landscape; Chapter 3: A journey into border territory; Chapter 4: Borderlands and belonging; Chapter 5: Thinking spatially; Chapter 6: A simultaneity of stories-so-far; Epilogue

Biography

Kate Carruthers Thomas is a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, UK.