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Students’ Experiences of Psychosocial Problems in Higher Education Battling and Belonging

Edited By Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo, Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen Copyright 2023

174 Pages

by Routledge

174 Pages

by Routledge

174 Pages

by Routledge

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Description

Around the world, students in higher education suffer from and deal with psychosocial problems. This phenomenon is universal and seems to be increasing. A vast number of students enter higher education with problems like stress, anxiety or depression, or develop them during their student lives, due to, for example, loneliness, family crisis, mental health or study environment issues.... Read more

Table of Contents

Authors’ biographies

Acknowledgements

1: Battling and belonging. Students’ psychosocial problems and the experience of higher education

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo & Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

2: Higher education as a battlefield. Contradictions in the Danish educational context

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo &

Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

3: The orientation towards a student perspective. Methodological framework

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo & Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

4: "If a look at myself…" Poetic representations of students’ negotiations of self

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo & Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

5: "Like everyone else can". Shameful identities and the narrative of the ‘good student’ in higher education

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo & Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

6: "I cannot even set the pace". Asyncronicity and inequality in an accelerated educational system

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo & Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

7: "If you don’t feel at ease socially". Recognition, loneliness and communities in higher education

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo & Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

8: "I see it as an extra job I have". Students’ extra work in making higher education accessible

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo & Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

9: From battling to belonging in higher education

Trine Wulf-Andersen, Lene Larsen, Annie Aarup Jensen, Lone Krogh, Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo & Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen

Appendix

Editor(s)

Biography

Trine Wulf-Andersen is Associate Professor of youth, education and participatory research at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Lene Larsen is Associate Professor of youth, education and welfare at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Annie Aarup Jensen is Associate Professor of learning theory and didactics at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Lone Krogh is Associate Professor of Higher Education policies and practices, teaching and learning at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo is a postdoc researcher of education and learning, identity and time-environments at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen is PhD fellow of education, mental health and participatory research at Roskilde University, Denmark.

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