Challenging Cultures? Student Conceptions of 'Belonging' and 'Isolation' at a Post-1992 University
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4097489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Read (0000-0002-8125-8550, London Metropolitan University), Louise Archer (0000-0002-0254-4234, London Metropolitan University), Carole Leathwood (0000-0002-0150-4695, London Metropolitan University) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 261-277 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studies in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0307-5079 • E-ISSN: 1470-174X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03075070309290 |
| OpenAlex | W1972582361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 138 |
Academic culture is not uniformly accessed or experienced. Whilst financial constraints have a major impact on student entry and retention, students from 'non-traditional' backgrounds are also disadvantaged by institutional cultures that place them as 'other'. Individuals do not passively receive these cultural discourses, however, but actively engage with them and attempt to challenge them. This article explores such negotiations by looking at students' conceptions of 'belonging' and 'isolation' at a post-1992 university with a statistically high proportion of 'non-traditional' students in terms of class, maturity and ethnicity. It looks at: the extent to which such students can challenge their positioning as 'other' by choosing a university where they feel they can 'belong'; the extent to which institutional academic cultures work to constrain and disrupt such feelings of 'belonging'; the adoption of alternative discourses of the student-lecturer/student-institution relation, and the extent to which such discourses can challenge feelings of isolation and marginalisation in the academy
Cultural diversity · Developmental psychology · Disadvantaged · Ethnic group · Feeling · Higher education · Institution · Negotiation · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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