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

• TeilnehmendeR: Brook, Heather,; University of Adelaide,
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

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.

Table of 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.