Everyday Mobile Belonging: Theorising Higher Education Student Mobilities (Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education)

by KirstyFinn (Author), Mark Holton (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2019

  $171.46

  This book presents a manifesto for a new kind of thinking about student mobilities and belonging, which foregrounds the everyday and rhythmic dimensions of students' experiences. It develops the concepts of everyday mobilities and mobile belongingness. The authors draw on key ideas about the changing context of higher education and of student belonging, exploring the central themes of the sensory, affective and psychogeographical nature of student mobilities; contested and mobile belongings; and the significance of everyday life, to bring a new dimension to the literature on inter and intra-national student mobilities. This is followed by an examination of the innovative ways in which social science methods have been (re)imagined through mobility, with a specific focus on youth and education. Kirsty Finn and Mark Holton bring together theory and research from the fields of education studies, geography and sociology, and combine this with a discussion of rich empirical data from four UK-based research projects to set out an explicitly mobility-centred approach to 21st-century student experiences. The findings can be recognised globally because they synthesise debates about travel and transport, students' sense of place and feelings of belonging, and the interrelationship between physical, social and virtual mobilities that higher education brings together. In doing so, this text offers a coherent and grounded campaign for theory and research within studies of higher education that foreground multiple mobilities and diverse feelings of belonging.