Exploring Student Loneliness In Higher Education

Author : Lee Oakley
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783030356750

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Exploring Student Loneliness in Higher Education by Lee Oakley Pdf

This book is an in-depth qualitative linguistic study of loneliness disclosures in interviews with undergraduate students in the UK. While much loneliness research has been undertaken in the areas of psychology, social policy and education, such studies have prioritised the social factors behind mental distress without paying explicit attention to the medium in which such distress is communicated and embodied (i.e. language). This monograph supplements this growing body of work by arguing for a stronger focus on the insights which linguistic analysis can provide for investigating how and why loneliness is disclosed by Higher Education students. This book is the first study to address discourses of loneliness in Higher Education specifically from a linguistic perspective, and will be of interest to education and healthcare professionals, counselling and welfare providers, and students and scholars of discourse analysis and linguistics.

Author : Luca Siliquini-Cinelli,Thomas Giddens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000876222

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Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli,Thomas Giddens Pdf

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of structure in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey, but also to recognise that legal education is a key site in which the subject engages, and is engaged by, a particular structure—and here the particular structure of the law school. This book explores that structure by addressing the characteristics of the biopolitical orders engaged in legal education, including: understanding the lawyer as a commodity, unpicking the force relations in legal education, examining the ways codes of conduct in higher education impact academic freedom, as well as putting the distinctly Western structures of legal learning within a wider context. Assembling original, field-defining essays by both leading international scholars and emerging researchers, it constitutes an indispensable resource in legal education research and scholarship that will appeal to legal academics everywhere.

Author : Julian Stern,Christopher A. Sink,Wong Ping Ho,Malgorzata Walejko
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350162174

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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness by Julian Stern,Christopher A. Sink,Wong Ping Ho,Malgorzata Walejko Pdf

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Solitude, Silence and Loneliness is the first major account integrating research on solitude, silence and loneliness from across academic disciplines and across the lifespan. The editors explore how being alone – in its different forms, positive and negative, as solitude, silence and loneliness – is learned and developed, and how it is experienced in childhood and youth, adulthood and old age. Philosophical, psychological, historical, cultural and religious issues are addressed by distinguished scholars from Europe, North and Latin America, and Asia.

Author : Christian Ludwig,Theresa Summer,Maria Eisenmann,Daniel Becker,Nadine Krüger
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783381114634

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Mental Health in English Language Education by Christian Ludwig,Theresa Summer,Maria Eisenmann,Daniel Becker,Nadine Krüger Pdf

Mental health has become a growing concern in today's society, with schools emerging as focal points for addressing this topic. The present volume takes this as a starting point to explore the relevance of curricula and competencies, texts and materials, (digital) culture and communication, and teacher education in the context of mental health and English language education. This, for instance, includes insights into interrelated topics such as gender, climate change, stress, and conspiracy theories. A variety of texts including multimodal novels, video games, and songs provides practical impulses for integrating mental health related topics into English lessons. As such, this volume brings together scholars from various fields who discuss the relationship between mental health issues and English as a foreign language learning from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and practice-oriented perspectives.

Author : Trine Wulf-Andersen,Lene Larsen,Annie Aarup Jensen,Lone Krogh,Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo,Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000640373

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Students’ Experiences of Psychosocial Problems in Higher Education by Trine Wulf-Andersen,Lene Larsen,Annie Aarup Jensen,Lone Krogh,Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo,Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen Pdf

Around the world, students in higher education suffer from and deal with psychosocial problems. This phenomenon is universal and seems to be increasing. A vast number of students enter higher education with problems like stress, anxiety or depression, or develop them during their student lives, due to, for example, loneliness, family crisis, mental health or study environment issues. Battling, belonging and recognition are the focal points of this book’s analyses, showing how students faced with psychosocial problems experience high degrees of stigma and exclusion in the academic communities and society as such. The book is based on research situated in a welfare society, Denmark, where students have relatively easy access to higher education and to public support for education as well as special support for students with psychosocial problems. Taking a student perspective, the book provides in-depth, qualitative analyses of what characterizes student life, which specific psychosocial and other problems students experience, how problems are constructed, represented and become significant in relation to studying, and, not least, how students deal with them. It will be of great interest to researchers, academics and postgraduate students in the fields of educational psychology, sociology of education and higher education. It will also be of interest to supervisors and administrators in higher education.

Author : Owen Hargie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000474640

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Skilled Interpersonal Communication by Owen Hargie Pdf

Established as the foremost textbook on communication, the seventh edition of Owen Hargie’s Skilled Interpersonal Communication is thoroughly revised and updated with the latest research findings, theoretical developments and applications. The contribution of skilled interpersonal communication to success in both personal and professional contexts is now widely recognised and extensively researched. People have a deep-seated and universal need to interact with others, and the greater their communicative ability the more satisfying and rewarding will be their lives. The main focus of this book is on the identification, analysis and evaluation of the core skills needed in these interactions. The first two chapters provide details of the nature of interpersonal communication and socially skilled performance, respectively, with a review of the main theoretical perspectives pertaining to each. The book then offers detailed accounts of the fourteen main skill areas: nonverbal communication, reinforcement, questioning, reflecting, listening, explaining, self-disclosure, set induction, closure, assertiveness, influencing, negotiating and interacting in and leading group discussions. The book concludes with a discussion on the ethical issues in interpersonal communication. This new edition also features an extended section on groupthink and analyses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on aspects such as greeting patterns and the effectiveness of Project Fear by the UK government to secure citizen compliance. Written by one of the foremost international experts in the field, this is essential reading for students of interpersonal communication in general and to qualified personnel and trainees in many fields.

Author : Laura A. Wankel,Charles Wankel
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780857246516

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Higher Education Administration with Social Media by Laura A. Wankel,Charles Wankel Pdf

New technologies provide new ways of delivering the programs and services of higher educational (HE) institutions. This book examines how social media are redefining what university communities are and the purposes and practices of the various functional areas in HE.

Author : Ellen Boeren,Nalita James
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319972084

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Being an Adult Learner in Austere Times by Ellen Boeren,Nalita James Pdf

This book examines the experiences of adult learners in times of austerity. The power of adult education to transform lives is well known, and it is especially powerful for those who missed out on educational opportunities earlier in life. Those who have been successful learners in the past are more likely to continue their education and training, making extra support and funding ever-more important: however, in the current economic and political climate, support for adult learning is significantly decreasing. This book sheds light on the experiences of adult learners, despite the difficulties facing the sector: interweaving empirical discussions with theoretical debates, the editors and contributors demonstrate the challenges and struggles of adult learners in higher, further and community education. This enlightening edited collection will be of interest to all those involved in adult education as well as policy makers and funders.

Author : Wulf Rössler
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782889764754

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Insights in Public Mental Health: 2021 by Wulf Rössler Pdf

Author : Chad Hanson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118915097

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In Search of Self: Exploring Student Identity Development by Chad Hanson Pdf

Students become new and different people through the course of their education. When students earn the right to say, “I am a college graduate,” that new status becomes a part of who they are. The authors in this volume—scholars from a range of fields—offer methods that staff and faculty can use to explore the process through which students develop new personal, civic, and professional identities. The research and ideas in this volume can assist in designing approaches to encourage student growth, and to help us understand what it means to attend and become a graduate of a college or university. This is the 166th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Higher Education. Addressed to presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other higher education decision makers on all kinds of campuses, it provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution.

Author : Fabienne Vailes
Publisher : Practical Inspiration Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781788603355

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The Flourishing Student – 2nd edition by Fabienne Vailes Pdf

The REAL University Challenge: Helping students to become flourishing life-long learners. As a tutor you want to help students to flourish not only academically but in all aspects of their university lives: mentally, emotionally, physically, socially and spiritually. But with students reporting stress and anxiety at an all-time high, and academic staff under more pressure than ever before, you could use some help. In this new, post-pandemic edition of the classic guide, Fabienne Vailes reveals how you can help your students develop a ‘tool box’ of well-being techniques that will support them through university and beyond, and ensure your own well-being at the same time. She finishes with thoughts on how universities can implement systemic changes that support flourishing at an institutional, not just at an individual, level. Fabienne Vailes is an expert on emotional and mental well-being within the education sector. She is on a mission to change the face of education – embedding well-being into the curriculum to create an environment where both students and staff flourish and become empowered lifelong learners to succeed both academically and in the workplace.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780850142433

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Higher Education - Reflections From the Field - Volume 4 by Anonim Pdf

COVID wrought havoc on the world’s economic systems. Higher education did not escape the ravages brought on by the pandemic as institutions of higher education around the world faced major upheavals in their educational delivery systems. Some institutions were prepared for the required transition to online learning. Most were not. Whether prepared or not, educators rose to the challenge. The innovativeness of educators met the challenges as digital learning replaced the face-to-face environment. In fact, some of the distance models proved so engaging that many students no longer desire a return to the face-to-face model. As with all transitions, some things were lost while others were gained. This book examines practice in the field as institutions struggled to face the worst global pandemic in the last century. The book is organized into four sections on 'Embracing Quality Assurance”, 'Educational Standards and Quality Assurance”, 'Evaluating Educational Access” and 'Why Assessment?”. It presents various perspectives from educators around the world to illustrate the struggles and triumphs of those facing new challenges and implementing new ideas to empower the educational process. These discussions shed light on the impact of the pandemic and the future of higher education post-COVID. Higher education has been forever changed, and higher education as it once was may never return. While many questions arise, the achievements in meeting and overcoming the pandemic illustrate the creativity and innovativeness of educators around the world who inspired future generations of learners to reach new heights of accomplishment even in the face of the pandemic.

Author : Trine Wulf-Andersen,Lene Larsen,Annie Aarup Jensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1032116846

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Students' Experiences of Psychosocial Problems in Higher Education by Trine Wulf-Andersen,Lene Larsen,Annie Aarup Jensen Pdf

Around the world, students in higher education suffer from and deal with psychosocial problems. This phenomenon is universal and seems to be increasing.

Author : Vander Tavares
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781793641120

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International Students in Higher Education by Vander Tavares Pdf

Applying a critical and holistic framework, International Students in Higher Education: Language, Identity, and Experience from a Holistic Perspective explores the lived experiences of four multilingual international students at a Canadian University. Vander Tavares investigates how the students experience life in the host community, construct their multiple identities, and develop their proficiency in the English language. Additionally, Tavares examines the ways in which the institutional context impacts the students’ experiences by foregrounding the voices of domestic students, faculty and support staff, and their experiences and perspectives on international students, multiculturalism, and multilingualism. Drawing from theories of cultural and social psychology, post-structuralism, multilingualism, and a sociocognitive approach to second language acquisition, this project presents rich ethnographic portraits of the students’ experiences. This contextualised and humanised portrayal of the students’ individual journeys challenges the prevailing discourse of deficit that has traditionally been used to characterise the multilingual international student experience. Overall, this book demonstrates that an ethical understanding of multilingual international students’ experiences requires critical attention to the sociocultural and sociolinguistic contexts of their academic communities and a holistic approach that considers the multiple domains of lived experience that the students navigate.

Author : Diane L. Lorenzetti
Publisher : Journal of International Students
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Exploring International Graduate Students’ Experiences, Challenges, and Peer Relationships: Impacts on Academic and Emotional Well-being by Diane L. Lorenzetti Pdf

As the number of international students in higher education continues to grow, so do concerns regarding systemic obstacles, discrimination, and social isolation that can impede students’ academic success. Peer mentorship has been shown to support graduate students through academic socialization and achievement in higher education (Lorenzetti et al., 2019). The purpose of this study was to explore the transitional experiences of international graduate students, and the extent to which peer-mentoring relationships can support academic and emotional wellbeing. Researchers interviewed 13 international graduate students from 3 professional faculties at a research-intensive Canadian university. International students described academic and intersectional challenges experienced while navigating and adapting to new environments and how these impacted both academic outcomes and students’ well-being. Relationships with peers were viewed as an essential means by which students could access academic and psychosocial supports necessary to adjust to and thrive in their new educational and cultural environments.