Reimagining the higher education student [electronic resource] : constructing and contesting identities / edited by Rachel Brooks and Sarah O'Shea.

"Drawing on the perspectives of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book challenges dominant constructions of higher education students. Given the increasing number and diversity of such students, the book offers a timely discussion of the implicit and sometimes subtle ways that the...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Brooks, Rachel, 1971- (Editor) O'Shea, Sarah (Editor)
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Edition:	First Edition.
Subjects:	College students > Psychology. College students > Attitudes. Education, Higher > Aims and objectives. Identity (Psychology)
Online Access:	Taylor & Francis eBooks (Open Access): 2021 (Taylor & Francis eBooks) Open Research Library (ORL): 2021 (Open Research Library) OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks): 2021 (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) DOAB Directory of Open Access Books: 2021 (Directory of Open Access Books)
Variant Title:	Reimagining the Higher Education Student: Constructing and Contesting Identities
Format:	Electronic eBook

Contents:

Reimagining the higher education student : an introduction / Rachel Brooks and Sarah O'Shea
On becoming a university student : young people and the 'illusio' of higher education
Sally Patfield, Jenny Gore and Leanne Fray
"She's like, 'you're a uni student now'" : the influence of mother-daughter relationships on the constructions of learner identities of first-in-family girls / Sarah McDonald
Constructions of náksèuk-săa : tracing contested imaginings of the Thai university student / Thornchanok Uerpairojkit and James Burford
The shifting subjectification of the 'widening participation' student : the affective world of the 'deserving' consumer / Emily Danvers and Tamsin Hinton-Smith
Dispelling the myth of the 'traditional' university undergraduate student in the UK / Grace Sykes
Imagining the constructivist student online : actively engaged learner or vulnerable student in need? / Kate O'Connor
Dominant higher education imaginaries : forced perspectives, ontological limits and recognising the imaginer's frame / Matt Lumb and Matthew Bunn
Reframing the 'traditional learner' into the 'partner' in higher education : conflicting subjectivities and behavioural expectations of the undergraduate 'student' in UK universities / Eloise Symonds
Constructing the university student in British documentary television / Kay Calver and Bethan Michael-Fox
Constructing students as family members : contestations in media and policy representations across Europe / Anu Lainio and Rachel Brooks
Student millennials/millennial students : how the lens of generation constructs understandings of the contemporary HE student / Kirsty Finn, Nicola Ingram and Kim Allen
Exploring spaces in-between : reimagining the Chinese student in a transnational higher education context in China / Paola R.S. Eiras and Henk Huijser
Between international student and immigrant : a critical perspective on Angolan and Cape Verdean students in Portugal / Elisa Alves and Russell King
Conclusion / Sarah O'Shea and Rachel Brooks.