Providing sector leading, scholarly informed critical explorations on students sense of belonging in higher education settings, this key text explores invaluable considerations for contemporary issues to inform institutional policy, pedagogic practice, student education support and diversity and accessibility practices.
Drawing on the research and practical expertise of an international authorship, alongside vital insights from student contributors, this book is both timely and necessary. It provides critical reflections and discussion of the complexity of students sense of belonging, focusing on the challenges for those now implementing, exploring and researching student belonging initiatives in higher education. Responding to the urgent need to understand diverse student populations, chapters explore the dynamics of student experiences at the individual, social, academic, and institutional levels and recognises underlying issues to create solutions to overcome barriers and tensions. Topics such as the multidimensionality of belonging, and its relation to social capital, the role of context, and measurement of belonging are critically discussed in this collection to provide lessons learned and knowledge from the field, to make practice with students more considered and robust for the challenges ahead in the contemporary and future university.
Student Belonging in Higher Education is a must-read for all those interested and invested in the topic of student belonging. It offers evidence-based critical reflections and recommendations for those implementing, exploring and researching student belonging initiatives to create more inclusive, supportive, and thriving academic communities.
Providing sector leading, scholarly informed critical explorations on students sense of belonging in higher education settings, this key text explores invaluable considerations for contemporary issues to inform institutional policy, pedagogic practice, student education support and diversity and accessibility practices.
Foreword: Beyond Building Belonging: Reimagining Success in Higher
Education. Sunday Blake, GuildHE.
Part I Introductions
Chapter 1: Investigating Sense of Belonging in Higher Education: A
Multi-dimensional & multi-layered Approach. - Mi Young Ahn
Chapter 2: Challenging Dominant Discourses: Towards Dynamic Narratives of
Belonging as Becoming in Higher Education. - Edward Venn, Karen Burland and
Boroka Javor
Chapter 3: Belonging Theory into Practice: A Framework to enhance Student
Success in Higher Education. - Caroline Cooke and Tom Lowe
Part II Perspectives on Belonging
Chapter 4: Seeking Belonging in Higher Education: A Student Leaders
Perspective. -Ayoola Johnson
Chapter 5: Generation Delta Network: Fostering Belonging and Shared Social
Capital Among Postgraduate Students of Colour. - Angela Loum
Chapter 6: Belonging and Engagement in Higher Education Literature: Related
but Separate Constructs. - Kathleen M. Quinlan
Chapter 7: Social Engagement and Students Sense of Belonging in Higher
Education: A Multidimensional Perspective. - Terrell L. Strayhorn
Chapter 8: Beyond concrete walls? Exploring student belonging through
university campus spaces. - Billy Wong and Tiffany Chiu
Chapter 9: Happy staff, happy students? Exploring professional identity and
student belonging in higher education. - Rebecca Hodgson
Chapter 10: Institutional belonging: The role of social capital. - Snigdha
Dutta and Vrinda Bhatia
Part III Case Studies in Belonging
Chapter 11: Belonging: Whiteness, language, and the navigation of the self. -
Mukisa Mujulizi
Chapter 12: A collaborative autoethnographic reflection on social class and
student belonging in higher education. - Stacey Mottershaw, Rachael O'Connor
and Nadine Cavigioli
Chapter 13: Degree Apprenticeship Students in Higher Education and their
Sense of Belonging in the Context of their Learner Identity. - Joanne
Brindley and Fiona Cook
Chapter 14: Who I Am Is More Than Enough: How Multiple Forms of Co-creation
Foster Belonging and Mattering for Wellbeing. - Alison Cook-Sather, Mary
Katharine Woodworth and Mara Wald
Chapter 15: Subaltern spaces of belonging: A critical analysis of race,
ethnicity and belonging in UK Higher Education for British-Bangladeshi women
in postgraduate research. - Maisha Islam, Farhin Ahmed, Musharrat
Ahmed-Landeryou and Tahnia Ahmed
Chapter 16: Student Belonging In Reverse: How Do Failures in Student
Belonging for Trans Students Cause Trans Student Leaders to Make Their Own
Sense of Community - Ashley Michael John Storer-Smith
Chapter 17: Belongingness for Indigenous Students in United States
Postsecondary Education: Theoretical Perspectives Braiding Culture,
Community, and Campus Support. - Adam J. Alejandro and Carlton J. Fong
Chapter 18: Made for a Trade? Negotiating working-class masculinity to and
through spaces of Higher Education. - Alex Blower and Craig Johnston
Chapter 19: Home Away from Home: Belonging and Mattering for the
Chinese-Speaking Student Community. - Janet Zheng, Weiwei Su and Bo Kelestyn
Chapter 20: A Critical Exploration of Whiteness and Intersectionality in
British Higher Education: Am I invisible? - Shannon Skehan and Mi Young Ahn
Chapter 21: The importance of belonging through the lens of
intersectionality: Perspectives from students of African
humanitarian-background. - Elvis Munyoka, Hannah Soong, Kalpana Goel and
David Radford
Mi Young Ahn is Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Edward Venn is Professor of Music in the School of Music, University of Leeds, UK.
Tom Lowe is Principal Lecturer and Assistant Head of School (Student Experience) in the School of Finance and Accounting, at the University of Westminster, UK.
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