Betwixt Spaces: Student Accounts of Turning Point Experiences in the First-Year Transition

Autor/inn/en	Palmer, Mark; O'Kane, Paula; Owens, Martin
Titel	Betwixt Spaces: Student Accounts of Turning Point Experiences in the First-Year Transition
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 34 (2009) 1, S.37-54 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
Schlagwörter	College Freshmen; Student Experience; Student Adjustment; Interpersonal Relationship; Student College Relationship; Self Concept; Academic Achievement; Foreign Countries; Research Methodology; Student Attitudes; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienanfänger; Studienerfahrung; Student; Students; Adjustment; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Adaptation; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Selbstkonzept; Schulleistung; Ausland; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Schülerverhalten; Großbritannien
Abstract	"Not belonging" is becoming a prevalent theme within accounts of the first-year student experience at university. In this study the notion of not belonging is extended by assuming a more active role for the idea of liminality in a student's transition into the university environments of academic and student life. In doing so, the article suggests that the transition between one place (home) and another (university) can result in an "in-between-ness"--a betwixt space. Through an interpretative methodology, the study explores how students begin to move from this betwixt space into feeling like fully-fledged members of university life. It is concluded that there is a wide range of turning points associated with the students' betwixt transition, which shapes, alters or indeed accentuates the ways in which they make meaningful connections with university life. Moreover, transitional turning point experiences reveal a cast of characters and symbolic objects; capture contrasting motivations and evolving relationships; display multiple trajectories of interpersonal tensions and conflicts; highlight discontinuities as well as continuities; and together, simultaneously liberate and constrain the students' transition into university life. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10