Full Description
This book presents a framework for a new kind of thinking about student mobilities and belonging, which foregrounds the everyday and rhythmic dimensions of students' experiences. Using case studies from a variety of UK higher education contexts, this book develops the concepts of everyday mobilities and mobile belongingness. The authors draw on key ideas about the changing characteristics of UK higher education and of student belonging, exploring the central themes of the sensory, affective and emotional aspects of student mobilities; contested and mobile belongings; and the significance of everyday life, to bring a new dimension to the literature on inter and intra-national student mobilities. This is achieved through an examination of the innovative ways in which social science methods have been (re)imagined through mobility, with a specific focus on youth and education.
Kirsty Finn and Mark Holton bring together theory and research from the fields of education studies, geography and sociology, and combine this with a discussion of rich empirical data from three UK-based research projects to set out an explicitly mobility-centred approach to 21st-century student experiences. The findings can be recognised globally because they synthesise debates about travel and transport, students' sense of place and feelings of belonging, and the interrelationship between physical, social and virtual mobilities that higher education brings together. In doing so, this text offers a coherent and grounded campaign for theory and research within studies of higher education that foreground multiple mobilities and diverse feelings of belonging.
Contents
Series Editor Preface
Introduction: A Mobility-centred Approach to Localised Experiences and Forms of Belonging
Part I: Higher Education in the 21st Century: (New) Theoretical Directions for Understanding Student Experiences
1. Patterns, Policy, Discourse: Transformations in Higher Education in the 21st Century
2. Making the Familiar Strange (Again): Established Ways of Knowing Higher Education Student Im/mobility and its Challenges
3. Dismantling Dualisms: The Mobilities Turn in Social Theory
4. A Mobilities Manifesto: New Directions for Higher Education Research and Theorising
Part II: Mobile Methodologies: Researching Student Experiences
5. Mobile Methods: New Tools for Researching Belonging and Everyday Life
6. Methodological Notes From Each of the Studies
Part III: Empirical Explorations: Students on the Move in the UK
7. Regional Mobilities: Students on the Move
8. Meaning Making and Everyday 'Local' Mobilities
9. Incongruous Mobilities: Mature Students' Experiences of the University Campus
10. Post-student Mobilities: Transitions Away From University
Conclusion
References
Index
