A Morphogenesis Account of Student Leaders' Development of Their Agency in Their Undergraduate Residences at Stellenbosch University

Autor/inn/en	Davids, Delecia; Fataar, Aslam
Titel	A Morphogenesis Account of Student Leaders' Development of Their Agency in Their Undergraduate Residences at Stellenbosch University
Quelle	In: Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 10 (2022) 1, S.77-91 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Davids, Delecia) ORCID (Fataar, Aslam)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Student Leadership; Leadership Training; Organizational Culture; Student Diversity; Student Adjustment; Student Attitudes; Dormitories; Self Concept; Universities; Race; Native Language; Indo European Languages; English; African Languages; Ethnicity; Social Class; Student Characteristics; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Studentenwerk; Führungslehre; Unternehmenskultur; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Schülerverhalten; Student housing; Studentenwohnheim; Selbstkonzept; University; Universität; Rasse; Abstammung; Indoeuropäisch; English language; Englisch; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Ethnizität; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	This article offers an account of the development of student leaders' agency within the institutional culture of their residences at Stellenbosch University (SU). Residences at formerly white universities such as SU are struggling to align their welcoming practices and cultures to the requirements for immersion of the diverse students who now live in them. This article focuses on student experiences of alienation in SU residences with a particular interest in how they develop adaptative responses to establish a place for themselves in them. It is based on focus group discussions with student leaders which provided insights into their perceptions of their residence cultures and how they established their agency in this environment. The analysis presented in the article is based on Archer's theoretical approach to morphogenesis. The first data section of the article discusses the interaction between the students' immersion in the institutional culture of their residences, on the one hand, and the acquisition of their initial identifications in response to the environmental cues of their residences, on the other. The second data section discusses the students' active acquisition of their social identities, which allowed them to establish their aspirant pathways at the residence and the university. Overall, the article offers an account of morphogenesis at work at the institutional level of SU's residences with a specific focus on the adaptive behaviour of student leadership in this university context. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01