Betwixt spaces
Student Accounts of Turning Point Experiences in the First-Year Transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4098337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Palmer (0000-0002-9183-0696, Aston University, corresponding author), Paula O''Kane, Paula O'Kane, Paula O’Kane (0000-0003-2120-0848, University of Ulster), Martin Owens, Martin D Owens (0000-0002-3277-1374, University of Bradford) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-54 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| 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 | 10.1080/03075070802601929 |
| OpenAlex | W1999664617 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 49 |
| References cited | 28 |
‘Not belonging’ is becoming a prevalent theme within accounts of the first‐year student experience at university. In this study the notion of not belonging is extended by assuming a more active role for the idea of liminality in a student’s transition into the university environments of academic and student life. In doing so, the article suggests that the transition between one place (home) and another (university) can result in an ‘in‐between‐ness’ – a betwixt space. Through an interpretative methodology, the study explores how students begin to move from this betwixt space into feeling like fully‐fledged members of university life. It is concluded that there is a wide range of turning points associated with the students’ betwixt transition, which shapes, alters or indeed accentuates the ways in which they make meaningful connections with university life. Moreover, transitional turning point experiences reveal a cast of characters and symbolic objects; capture contrasting motivations and evolving relationships; display multiple trajectories of interpersonal tensions and conflicts; highlight discontinuities as well as continuities; and together, simultaneously liberate and constrain the students’ transition into university life
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Feeling · Geometry · Higher education · Interpersonal communication · Liminality · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Turning point · Computer Science · Higher Education Governance and Development · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Higher Education Research Studies · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology
Liminality in academic middle management
Teacher–student relationship at university
The role of accommodation environments in student mental health and wellbeing
Liminal spaces, resources and networks
Building sustainable peer networks through an outdoor orientation program in support of student wellbeing
Investigating the potential for first-year residential field courses to facilitate the establishment of teacher-student relationships in biological sciences undergraduate degrees
Discourses We Live By
Previous education experience impacts student expectation and initial experience of transitioning into higher education
Student transition into higher education
Bridging the Gap
Exploring Learning for On-Campus Students Transitioning to Online Learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Higher Education Commitment Challenge
University Climate and First-Year Persistence Plans in Chile
Understanding How Outdoor Adventure Education Experiences Can Support Gap Year Students’ Transition to College
“Intercultural Encounters”
Personal Tutoring in Higher Education
Exploring Transition From the Workplace to Higher Education During Covid‐19
When the only thing familiar is the moon – initial transitions of Indian, Pakistani and Nigerian students into UK HE
Impact of defining ikigai in developing future-ready university graduates with self-leadership skills
In-Betweenness, Mother Guilt, and Juggling Roles
Changes within
Fostering learning through unlearning institutional boundaries
International Students and Homemaking in Transition
The phenomenon of spiritual homelessness in transnational spaces among international students in the United States
Becoming a student of English
Race, ethnicity, and stratification within the first-generation student experience
Between frustration and education
Uncovering Habitus in Life Stories of Muslim Converts
Discourses, Cultural narratives, and Genre in Biographical Narratives
International students' transitions to UK Higher Education - revisiting the concept and practice of academic hospitality
Adapting relationships with place
École québécoise, frontières ethnoculturelles et identités en milieu pluriethnique
Students’ writing ‘in transition’ from A-levels to university
Fostering first-year students’ engagement and well-being through visual narratives
It is ambiguous, but I know what I am doing ’
Disrupting the dominance of ‘linear pathways’
Nomads in diaspora space
Exploring the Needs of Students from Low-Income Backgrounds Through First-Year Experience Practitioner Perspectives
I’m not sure where home is’
Type and Breadth of High School Extracurricular Activity Involvement and Postsecondary Psychosocial Well-Being among Diverse Youth
Understanding first-year students’ transition to university
You're thrown in the deep end
Understanding the early transition needs of diverse commencing university students in a health faculty
A head start in higher education
Examining the experiences of first-year students with low tertiary admission scores in Australian universities
It all just clicked
It's been a challenge finding new ways to learn
Measuring the beginning
What Is and What Can Be
Transitions and Turning Points in Developmental Psychopathology
The governance of sustainable socio-technical transitions
Embeddedness and Economic Transformation of Manufacturing
Transitional objects and transitional phenomena 1 —a study of the first not-me possession 2
Children of the Great Depression
Projective Techniques
Military times and turning points in men's lives
Transitional Objects
Facilitating a Successful Transition to College for Adults
The "Second Half" of Student Integration
Encouraging Development in College Students
The “Second Half” of Student Integration
Breaking the Attrition Cycle
Application of a Conceptual Model of College Withdrawal to Disadvantaged Students
Entering the university
It was nothing to do with the university, it was just the people
Identity and placement learning
The critical incident technique
Studentification and 'Apprentice' Gentrifiers within Britain's Provincial Towns and Cities
The transition from school to university
Not belonging? What makes a functional learner identity in undergraduate mathematics
Being a good course-taker is not enough
| Unique citing works | 49 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,27 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 48 |