Universities in transition : foregrounding social contexts of knowledge in the first year experience / edited by Heather Brook [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brook, Heather, editor.

University of Adelaide, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Student aspirations--Australia.

Student aspirations.

Critical thinking--Australia.

Critical thinking.

College integration--Australia.

College integration.

Study skills--Australia.

Study skills.

College freshmen--Australia.

College freshmen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

By recasting 'the transition to university' as simultaneously and necessarily entailing a transition of university - indeed universities - and of their many and varied constitutive relations, structures and practices, the contributors to this book seek to reconceptualise 'first-year experience' in terms of multiple and dynamic processes of dialogue and exchange amongst all participants. They interrogate taken-for-granted understandings of what 'the university' is, and consider what universities might yet become.

Contents:

Reconceptualising : transition and universities

Navigating student transition in higher education : induction, development, becoming

University transitions in practice : research-learning, fields and their communities of practice

Revealing : 'non-traditional' student groups in higher education

Classism on campus? Exploring and extending understandings of social class in the contemporary higher education debate

. Reframing 'the problem' : students from low socio-economic status backgrounds transitioning to university

Changing social relations in higher education : the first-year international student and the 'Chinese learner' in Australia

Relating experiences : Regional and remote students in their first year at university

Realising : transformations on campus

The University of Adelaide Student Learning Hub : a case study of education co-creation

Thinking critically about critical thinking in the First-Year experience

Knowing students.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references.

CC BY-NC-ND

OCLC:

897205845

Publisher Number:

10.20851/universities-transition