Students' Experiences of Psychosocial Problems in Higher Education: Battling and Belonging

ISBN-13: 9781032116839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 168 str.

Trine Wulf-Andersen; Lene Larsen; Annie Aarup Jensen

Opis

Around the world, students in higher education suffer from and deal with psychosocial problems. This phenomenon is universal and seems to be increasing.

Spis treści

1: Battling and belonging. Students’ psychosocial problems and the experience of higher education.  2: Higher education as a battlefield. Contradictions in the Danish educational context.  3: The orientation towards a student perspective. Methodological framework.  4: "If a look at myself…" Poetic representations of students’ negotiations of self.  5: "Like everyone else can". Shameful identities and the narrative of the ‘good student’ in higher education.  6: "I cannot even set the pace". Asyncronicity and inequality in an accelerated educational system.  7: "If you don’t feel at ease socially". Recognition, loneliness and communities in higher education.  8: "I see it as an extra job I have". Students’ extra work in making higher education accessible.  9: From battling to belonging in higher education