Everyday Mobile Belonging

Theorising Higher Education Student Mobilities

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Kirsty Finn, Mark Holton, UK) Finn, Dr Kirsty (University of Glasgow, UK) Holton, Dr Mark (University of Plymouth, Paul Ashwin

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-24
Mått156 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt363 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieUnderstanding Student Experiences of Higher Education
Antal sidor256
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350201323

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Series Editor PrefaceIntroduction: A Mobility-centred Approach to Localised Experiences and Forms of BelongingPart I: Higher Education in the 21st Century: (New) Theoretical Directions for Understanding Student Experiences1. Patterns, Policy, Discourse: Transformations in Higher Education in the 21st Century2. Making the Familiar Strange (Again): Established Ways of Knowing Higher Education Student Im/mobility and its Challenges3. Dismantling Dualisms: The Mobilities Turn in Social Theory4. A Mobilities Manifesto: New Directions for Higher Education Research and TheorisingPart II: Mobile Methodologies: Researching Student Experiences5. Mobile Methods: New Tools for Researching Belonging and Everyday Life6. Methodological Notes From Each of the StudiesPart III: Empirical Explorations: Students on the Move in the UK7. Regional Mobilities: Students on the Move8. Meaning Making and Everyday ‘Local’ Mobilities9. Incongruous Mobilities: Mature Students’ Experiences of the University Campus10. Post-student Mobilities: Transitions Away From UniversityConclusionReferencesIndex

A compelling and refreshingly innovative account…Finn and Holton carefully elucidate and marshal their framework of “everyday mobile belonging” across a series of richly textured ethnographic chapters that reveal how a diverse range of contemporary UK higher education students move, stay, interact with space and negotiate belonging in a landscape shaped by the massification and marketization of 21st-century higher education. Alongside this exceptional ethnography, Finn and Holton also mount a nuanced critical scoping of higher education as both a sector and a scholarly field, and engage in thought-provoking ways with questions of method in mobilities research that are in themselves a crucial contribution.