Belonging in a learning community
The re-imagined university and imagined social capital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11477010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Quinn (0000-0002-8920-5533, University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-17 |
| Publication date | 2005-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in the Education of Adults (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0266-0830 • E-ISSN: 1478-9833 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02660830.2005.11661504 |
| OpenAlex | W34888393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 16 |
The notion of learning community has assumed an important position in discussions about the education of adults. The vision of a network of learning communities each producing forms of social capital is actively promoted as the key to lifelong learning. Universities are increasingly being positioned within this network. This article explores and critiques the notion of learning community and how it is deployed as an agent of regulation and incorporation. It argues that Iris Marion Young's ideal of the ‘unoppressive city’ is more helpful in understanding how universities are being experienced and re-imagined than are other visions of learning communities. The paper draws on UK-based and international research on women and belonging in the university to explore the significance of imagined communities and to stress the importance of the university as a space of fantasy. It argues that such imagined communities produce a significant form of social capital: imagined social capital. It concludes that this process can offer mutuality without incorporation, thus recouping the notion of community further than Young's critique would allow, but providing something very different to the idea of the learning community, as it is usually espoused
Capital (architecture · Community building · Fantasy · Learning community · Lifelong learning · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Social capital · Social science · Sociology · Vision · Visual arts · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Higher Education Research Studies
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Older, online and first
Mobility as Capital
Social capital in wonderland
Determinants of peer selection for collaborative group work of third-year bachelor students in a medical degree programme with learning communities
Many more rivers to cross
Transitions and turning points
They give you tools and they give you a lot, but it is up to you to use them’
The Epistemological Challenge of Higher Education Student Volunteering
Reform, inequalities of process and the transformative potential of communities of practice in the pre-school sector of England
Cigars on the flight-deck
Fake it till you make it
It is like school sometimes
Mothers and their children
Organising Feminisms
Bowling alone
Feminism and geography
Feminism/Postmodernism
Higher Education and Social Class
Understanding working-class 'drop-out' from higher education through a sociocultural lens
Student retention in higher education
Learning for active citizenship
Civic engagement and lifelong learning
The Dynamics of the Protected Space
Promoting Social Capital in a 'Risk Society
Classrooms as Communities
Learning or Therapy? The Demoralisation of Education
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,72 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |