Affective Politics of Belonging to STEM: Some Conceptual and Methodological Considerations

Science Education, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 30, 2025

ABSTRACT This paper is situated within the vast literature that examines issues of under‐representation, microaggressions, and social inequities faced by racially gender diverse students in STEM education. As part special issue “Centering Affect Emotion Toward Justice Dignity Science Education,” it focuses on analyzing affective dimensions racialized students' encounters postsecondary settings to highlight politics belonging fields a Canadian context. Research emotions science education can benefit from process‐oriented view better understand how exclusionary boundaries get (re)formed between bodies, which inform equity efforts. One major implication this work offer different analytical tool for approaching notions as commonly employed literature. Through cultural political analysis emotions, desires, affects, we seek go beyond psycho‐social views synonymous with understanding sense STEM. Sense maintains interiorized positive feelings, whereby often self‐explanatory term, if not an end goal, conflating (group) identity. Rather, analyze affectively constituted day‐to‐day spaces Careful reproduce deterministic static analyses, further attend longings desires encountering higher anew. Finally, consider some methodological affordances limitations attuning embodied responses exploratory survey.

Язык: Английский

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Coming to belong in the university through small acts of connection

Studies in Higher Education, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 13

Опубликована: Март 3, 2025

Язык: Английский

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The power of an open door: student partnership and supportive transition to higher education

Perspectives Policy and Practice in Higher Education, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 6

Опубликована: Март 7, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Building Belonging in Biological Sciences

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Making up for lost time: University students' quest to reclaim missed opportunities while adjusting to post‐Covid life in higher education

British Educational Research Journal, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 31, 2025

Abstract A small‐scale qualitative case study of students at a post‐1992 university in England sought to understand the nuanced experiences returning face‐to‐face following pandemic. Whilst much has been written about effects studying online, less is known how adapted once they returned campus‐based delivery. Specifically, paper focuses on student motivations pursue higher education, and ways that blended digital‐learning habits learned during pandemic with their demands campus life immediate aftermath. This expands existing scholarship by detailing managed isolation, loneliness disrupted ‘sense belonging’ emerging from pandemic‐related lockdowns online learning. We show delivery invigorated eager immerse themselves real‐time pedagogic extracurricular experiences. Notwithstanding difficulties adaptation, hopeful narratives balance findings other studies suggest are struggling re‐engage traditional modes

Язык: Английский

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Politicising inclusive learning environments: how to foster belonging and challenge ableism?

Higher Education Research & Development, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 41(6), С. 2020 - 2033

Опубликована: Июль 6, 2021

Inclusive learning environments have been described as a crucial factor for fostering disabled students' sense of belonging in higher education. However, few empirical studies elaborated on how contribute to belonging. In this study, we taken socio-political approach and widen the theoretical understanding 'belonging'. We analyse three Finnish narrative interviews concerning their experiences through approach. Our findings highlight complex interplay context STEM large class sizes. discuss role active supporting The narratives show not might be more productive these students, are often built ableism. redefined inclusive environment design research endeavours: If teachers wish promote design, such needs disrupt broader ableist discourses

Язык: Английский

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A caring transformation of international education: possibilities, challenges and change

Higher Education Research & Development, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 42(5), С. 1197 - 1211

Опубликована: Июнь 15, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound impacts on all facets of international education. Not only it highlighted the inadequacy existing care arrangements but also created new needs. There is increased recognition among policy makers and education providers that they need to understand support wellbeing students more effectively – indeed with greater care. Drawing sociomaterial theories care, this article considers possibilities as a guiding principle for orienting transformation in productive directions. Its central contention focus will be vitally important fostering creating an institutional environment successfully attracts, retains, supports them. Yet than this, crucial redefining realising ambitious aims itself. This substantiates these claims by offering three 'sketches' how might reframe policy, support, point directions research student mobility.

Язык: Английский

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The politics of student belonging: identity and purpose

Teaching in Higher Education, Год журнала: 2023, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 14

Опубликована: Ноя. 14, 2023

Belonging is considered to be a positive foundation for students' well-being and success at university; however, in this article, we argue that it time think about belonging more critically. This research highlights how students experience create multiple belongings. Drawing upon empirical data from interviews video blogs with the UK Australia, identify calls integrated, uniform, approaches building universities are unhelpful. Instead, foreground situated political ways which make curate meaningful purposeful connections safe spaces. Our points personalised nature of belonging. We show individual learners often enact disrupt or challenge institutional assumptions expectations. advocate critical discussions between staff related affordances embracing choose belong, different times

Язык: Английский

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‘Belonging' within White male-dominated sports business management programmes

Sport Education and Society, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 13

Опубликована: Апрель 18, 2024

Patriarchal Whiteness dominates the sports sector and business university classrooms. This echo effect maintains a cyclical pattern of oppression whereby only certain voices are heard bodies seen. Belongingness has power to address injustices facilitate feeling connection that can transcend social identity markers. paper explores experiences students studying White male-dominated degree in United Kingdom (UK). In total, 10 management (undergraduate postgraduate) were interviewed relation gender, race/ethnicity belonging within their course. Findings demonstrated was more straightforward for male who made connections with ease. Sense belonging, however, not entirely connected or gender but rather shared sense meaning passion sport. The subject sport unify belonging. study important ramifications universities identity, student retention, course design critical pedagogy.

Язык: Английский

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Belonging to the university or being in the world: From belonging to relational being

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 19(4)

Опубликована: Авг. 2, 2022

In a world characterised by supercomplexity, in which higher education (HE) is the grip of neoliberal market forces (Barnett, 2000), it incumbent upon participants this sector to ask; what does mean belong, and what? ‘Belonging’ has become buzzword used institutions seemingly demonstrate how they seek include students help them ‘fit in’ specific cultures contexts learning. A sense ‘belonging’ may be important for some at an emotional level; however, context university, we argue that focussing on concept have effect encouraging assimilate dominant culture. More subtly, could noted part ongoing process inculcating beliefs, values normative behaviours associated with neoliberalism, arguably reproducing exacerbating many social challenges threatening education, democracy, ecosystems ultimately our ability survive planet. This theoretical paper notion belonging, problematising as construct 21st century HE insidiously invokes particular ‘community’ functions prioritise domestication conformity economic expectations driven agenda employability, entrepreneurialism, acquisitive individualism. We propose more meaningful conception ‘belonging’; based engaging changing their so belong authentically. contend belonging holds greater promise means self-actualisation, liberation, way develop authentic ‘critical being’ 1997) whereby are not “…subject but able act autonomously purposively within it” (ibid. p.4).

Язык: Английский

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