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

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 e...

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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).
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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.