Rethinking Student Belonging in Higher Education: From Bourdieu to Borderlands

Arguing for an understanding of belonging in higher education as relational, complex and negotiated, particularly in reference to 'non-traditional' students, this book counters prevailing normative assumptions as to what it means to belong and how institutional policy is shaped and implemented around traditional students. Bringing theoretical insights into institutional areas of policy and practice this book reframes belonging within a neo-liberal, marketised higher education sector, which continues to draw in students from diverse backgrounds, but is yes to account for their differences--

• | Author: Kate Carruthers Thomas
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Dec 04, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 88 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138311375
• | ISBN-13: 9781138311374