"A Real Rollercoaster of Confidence and Emotions": Learning to Be a University Student

Autor/inn/en	Christie, Hazel; Tett, Lyn; Cree, Vivienne E.; Hounsell, Jenny; McCune, Velda
Titel	"A Real Rollercoaster of Confidence and Emotions": Learning to Be a University Student
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 33 (2008) 5, S.567-581 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Qualitative Research; Student Attitudes; Alienation; Identification; College Students; Nontraditional Students; Student College Relationship; College Environment; Learner Engagement; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Qualitative Forschung; Schülerverhalten; Entfremdung; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Collegestudent; Hochschulumwelt; Großbritannien
Abstract	Accounts of emotion and affect have gained popularity in studies of learning. This article draws on qualitative research with a group of non-traditional students entering an elite university in the UK to illustrate how being and becoming a university student is an intrinsically emotional process. It argues that feelings of loss and dislocation are inherent to the students' experiences of entering university, and that "coming to know" a new community of practice is an emotional process that can incorporate feelings of alienation and exclusion, as well as of excitement and exhilaration. A broader understanding of how students learn then depends not just upon the individual's emotional commitment to developing a new learning identity, but on the emotional interaction between the student and the learning environment of the university. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10