What does it mean to belong? An interdisciplinary integration of theory and research on belonging

Social and Personality Psychology Compass, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 18(1)

Опубликована: Авг. 3, 2023

Abstract Feelings and questions of belonging are central to daily life. Highlighting this centrality, research theory in higher education have offered robust definitions frameworks for understanding what it means belong, how shapes meaningful life outcomes, foster it. This chapter offers an interdisciplinary structure putting these perspectives conversation. To do this, I first briefly review weave discussion about some common on belonging. Then, drawing from a place‐belongingness politics framework—which describes is both intimate feeling bounded by intersecting social forces that serve include exclude various realities—I highlight key factors (autobiographical, relational, cultural, economic, legal, elective) constitute offer concrete examples attending each factor as pathway building relational spaces critically college students.

Язык: Английский

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Topologies of belonging in the digital university

Pedagogy Culture and Society, Год журнала: 2023, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 15

Опубликована: Сен. 7, 2023

Belonging is a complex relational concept. It has been shown to be processual, emergent, and dynamic. And yet this relationality, complexity, sits in tension with increasingly voluble calls measure, manage maintain students' sense of belonging an ostensibly fixed space higher education. This article reports on research that invited students not only define how they experience belonging, but also surface belonging's relationality: it entangled material spaces artefacts enacted through evolving behaviours communities. Our data depict modulations which disrupt dominant discourses simplicity, stability uniformity. Engaging the generative concept social topologies, we offer rethinking both as relational. These findings enable us consider more nuanced perspectives about understood enacted, surfacing tapestries non-belonging experiences within education, well increasing departure from coherent delineated conception 'the university'. Given diversity learners learn, interrogating nature urgently needed if are understand diverse education meaningful ways.

Язык: Английский

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‘When I came to university, that’s when the real shift came’: alcohol and belonging in English higher education

Journal of Youth Studies, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 27(7), С. 1006 - 1022

Опубликована: Март 20, 2023

While young people's alcohol consumption has fallen sharply in the United Kingdom and other high-income countries, universities remain places where heavy drinking is routine normative. Drawing on interviews with undergraduate students, this article explores how part of students negotiate a sense belonging form personal relationships. Theoretical work relationality used to make students' encounters alcohol. Consistent decline youth drinking, several interviewees had limited experience prior university, some were not interested taking it up. After describing facilitates certain spaces student life, we examine strategies non- low-drinking navigating these spaces. Attending their suggests that becoming known as 'social persons' key negotiating without heavily. We conclude by considering might better accommodate desire for increasingly large proportion or creating opportunities relationships ways do involve peripheral activity.

Язык: Английский

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Exploring the Contribution of Student Engagement Factors to Mature-Aged Students’ Persistence and Academic Achievement During the First Year of University

The Journal of Continuing Higher Education, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 72(3), С. 304 - 319

Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2024

The expansion of higher education has led to greater diversity among students, with a significant portion them aged 25 and above. This demographic group represents range intersecting identities associated their different roles, responsibilities, life trajectories. While older students face obstacles engagement, persistence, success, they also bring unique strengths that inform the educational experience. research employs quantitative approach explore perceptions bachelor's degree regarding belonging, self-efficacy, motivation as student engagement factors how these influence persistence academic achievement during first year, focus on students. study compares mature-aged younger An analysis using ordinal logistic regression indicates age, are potential predictors achievement, which in turn correlates persistence. findings suggest more likely perform better academically than These report elevated confidence ability at university level intrinsically motivated learn. Based findings, discusses implications for strategies, transition retention support, avenues future research.

Язык: Английский

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Ecological dynamics in the third space: a diffractive analysis of academic development

London Review of Education, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 22(1)

Опубликована: Апрель 29, 2024

In this article, we conceptualise the maintenance and evolution of third space practice using an ecological heuristic. This considers dynamic balance between stabilising destabilising processes that require practitioners (particularly academic developers) to be active curators space. These drive phases adaptive cycle as it evolves from epistemologically singular perspective towards one accommodates epistemological plurality. A pictorial representation dynamics is offered a frame support construction personal professional narrative. provides exemplar reflection on practice, highlights need for epistemic humility within arena.

Язык: Английский

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