The Varieties of Student Experience--An Open Research Question and Some Ways to Answer It

Autor/in	Ainley, Patrick
Titel	The Varieties of Student Experience--An Open Research Question and Some Ways to Answer It
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 33 (2008) 5, S.615-624 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Undergraduate Students; Higher Education; Student Experience; Outcomes of Education; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Studienerfahrung; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Großbritannien
Abstract	Based on meetings of the Society for Research into Higher Education's Student Experience Network over the past three years, the genuinely open research question is posed whether there is one or more undergraduate student experience within English higher education. Answering this question depends on whether what is taught or what is learnt is examined. If the latter, then a unitary student experience can be said to exist only in the narrowest of normative senses. What undergraduates actually learn--defined in the widest sense--is the $64,000 question of research on the student experience. Various ways to answer this question are proposed, including using students to research students. Conceptual tools to apply to findings can be developed from youth studies and cognate disciplines, particularly in relation to student identities and aspirations. Lastly, these proposals are placed in the wider context of comparative models of the varieties of student experience, including those emerging in the UK's national regions. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10