Sense of belonging in higher education students: an Australian longitudinal study from 2013 to 2019

Studies in Higher Education, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 49(3), С. 395 - 409

Опубликована: Июль 21, 2023

Student sense of belonging is a current challenge to higher education providers, with consistently declining ratings in national surveys. For universities globally, this concern linked student attrition, satisfaction, and success. Importantly, low typically associated non-traditional learners, building strategies solve essential for institutions build equitable learning environments. This study seeks understand the causal factors that predict when will belong using longitudinal data. Using Australian experience survey data (n = 1,159,768 undergraduate postgraduate students between 2013 2019), examines predictors testing accuracy four machine models. The findings indicate overall educational experience, connection outside class, support settle were key predictors, skill development curriculum supports lesser predictor belonging. Interestingly, identity individual differences seemed have less importance than factors. Implications policy developers writers are considered.

Язык: Английский

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Belonging in Higher Education: A Twenty Year Systematic Review

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 21(05)

Опубликована: Апрель 15, 2024

Belonging is more than just a buzzword; it critical factor that affects students’ academic engagement, motivation, persistence, and overall achievement, especially considering the diversity of students in educational settings. The goal this paper to dissect complexities belonging, examining its various determinants, diverse impacts has on student university populations, range strategies effectively nurture sense belonging. We conducted literature search August 2023 using Web Science database, focusing exclusively publications from Journal University Teaching Learning Practice. used combination keywords like ‘belonging’, ‘university belonging’, ‘social other related terms, ensuring comprehensive collection relevant studies. A total 133 articles were identified, with 77 selected for detailed full-text review. final selection process resulted 33 systematic Key results our review indicate belonging higher education involves four main themes: connectedness peers, staff, institution; feeling safe part community; being valued accepted; embracing inclusion. These themes reflect holistic understanding as multi-dimensional concept, significantly influenced by institution-wide approaches, inclusive environments, educator practices, quality relationships. variation experiences identifies key challenges such exclusion groups, lack connection opportunities, insufficient support Effective fostering include targeting multiple system levels, building relationships, employing leveraging technology creating environments.

Язык: Английский

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Educating for Change and Collaboration: Sharing University Students’ Stakeholder Expectations About Improving the Impact of Retailing Companies’ Sustainable and Socially Responsible Practices

CSR, sustainability, ethics & governance, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 3 - 30

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Institutional Compassion in Student Transition to University: Findings from the Nurture-U Compassionate Campus Project

Education Sciences, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(4), С. 455 - 455

Опубликована: Апрель 5, 2025

Compassionate university practices can increase students’ sense of belonging and lead to higher wellbeing. This study presents qualitative data from a UK collected as part the Nurture-U Campus project. Experiences transition were gathered 32 students across five focus groups. Data analysed using narrative analysis, conducted jointly by an academic researcher student advisors. Results are presented three phases: (1) Expectations: participants hoped for liberal inclusive environments, but university’s reputation white, middle-class raised concerns some. (2) Navigating new social environment: on arrival, compassion was visible in welcoming individuals, lacked where felt othered. (3) Finding your people: many found friends who had shared experiences, this took time could cause further isolation. Participants identified specific compassionate universities implement supporting transition. These included (i) implementing communication prior arrival that actively promotes highlights available support, (ii) creating structures staff interact support each other small groups, (iii) holding accessible free events which not reliant societies.

Язык: Английский

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From corners to community: exploring medical students’ sense of belonging through co-creation in clinical learning

BMC Medical Education, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 24(1)

Опубликована: Апрель 30, 2024

Abstract Background Belonging is critical for the development and wellbeing of medical students. Belonging, particularly within a ‘relational being’ paradigm, presents significant challenge students, especially clinical learning environments. Co-creation relationship in which students are actively involved education process. It inherently relational promotes belonging higher Little known about utilising co-creation curriculum, education. The aim this study was to explore students’ experience resources environment. Methods Following ethical approval, were invited become co-creators bulletin resource, paediatric acute receiving unit, at teaching hospital. Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) used enable an in-depth exploration how experienced Medical participated semi-structured interviews their experience, transcribed verbatim analysed using IPA. integrated individual lived experiences into analytic summary. Results Nine participated. Three group experiential themes identified: identity maturation; community workplace integration. support found co-created community, along with maturation identity, allowed participants existing worldview. This shift perspective resulted them responding behaving new ways, enabled belong as themselves These findings situated developmental concept self-authorship, well contributing understanding promoted social Conclusions learn meaningful way. power co-creation, can be harnessed deliver participatory experiences, our increasingly complex healthcare environment, learning, integration doctors future.

Язык: Английский

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Blended learning as a site of struggle: A critical realist analysis of students’ perceptions of blended learning and its impact on their sense of belonging

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 20(6)

Опубликована: Авг. 3, 2023

This study explores students’ perceptions of blended learning and its impact on their sense belonging at a post-92 UK university. A critical realist framework that considers the interlocking domains subjective experience, objective events observations, mechanisms structures underpin them is used to situate these perceptions, while mixed methods approach enables multi-layered insight into captured diversity student experience. The quantitative qualitative results demonstrate self-reported experience delivery mixed, perceived academic performance negligible. effects remote belonging, however, are profound require change in current practices accommodate affective aspects university responds calls within literature for more in-depth investigations especially as regards

Язык: Английский

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Student sense of belonging and its impacts on help seeking behaviour

South African Journal of Higher Education, Год журнала: 2022, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2022

Entering higher education can be an alienating experience leading to institutional and systemic drop out. Academic help-seeking behaviour as a self-regulated learning strategy is one way counteract this. But enabled or hindered by several factors including student’s sense of belonging. In this study we attempted understand how issues belonging impact on student and, if they are positively related, institutions might promote greater We collected total 818 submissions from students in academic recovery programme. Our thematic analysis these revealed that did feel lack hesitancy. also captured students’ voices what conditions would enable make recommendations may work create for thereby empower their behaviour. Keywords: help-seeking, hesitancy, learning, belonging, success

Язык: Английский

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The professor is out: The simple joys of not belonging

Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 7(1)

Опубликована: Апрель 14, 2024

As the 2020s march on into a post-COVID age, an increasing trend for academics to exit their current academic positions or leave academia altogether can be observed internationally and locally. Consequently, sizeable body of experts accessible higher education but geographically beyond its ivory towers psychologically outside neoliberal grip has come exist. These para-academics public intellectuals continue contribute communities teaching, learning, researching do so often without affiliation. This study explores relational link between archaic notion affiliation what it means 'belong' university as staff. The problematises belonging assimilative designator organisation's culture suggests that belonging, employed in teaching learning discourse, trust-based mode building community, is different beast than conceived by universities. Using vignettes narrative enquiry, paper retells curates six accounts making transitions out finding fresh educational contexts belonging. emancipatory narratives move through spaces trauma authentic places reclaimed identity, most notably independent within broader context global citizenship. show us life after being academically affiliated look like when individuals exercise critical resilience establish identities university.

Язык: Английский

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Twenty Years of Disability Research: A Systematic Review

Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 21(05)

Опубликована: Апрель 15, 2024

Almost one in five Australians (18%) and nearing 10 of our student population (9%) are disabled, so it is unsurprising that disability a priority area for the Universities Accord process Australia, similar processes around world. We sought to explore how contributors Journal University Teaching & Learning Practice have advanced knowledge surrounding inclusion universities through their publications journal. identified only three articles were primarily or explicitly about aspects teaching learning higher education students with disability, alongside 48 tangentially mentioned disability. Other included search terms (such as disab*) but made passing reference not disabled education. provide recommendations authors, reviewers editors consider they reflect on can contribute conversation, improvement educational opportunities outcomes students.

Язык: Английский

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The university as sanctuary: home and unhomeliness

Journal of Philosophy of Education, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 59(1), С. 43 - 58

Опубликована: Апрель 18, 2024

Abstract Recent work at the confluence of Philosophy and Higher Education Studies has conceptualized university as a place for belonging. The university, on this understanding, offers respite refuge familiarity; it is insiders outsiders to come together forge meaningful lasting bonds. One interesting aspects about body scholarship that its antithesis also exists. There an equally compelling in philosophy education conceptualizes singularly alienating, troubling, disorientating. But are these two ideas what means experience higher odds with each other? We would argue contrary, rather maintaining they ineluctably related through idea sanctuary. propose sanctuary encapsulate both be site safety familiarity and, paradoxically, where such senses importantly challenged. interested implications scholars' experiences belonging well their encounters radical otherness.

Язык: Английский

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