Reimagining the Higher Education Student - 9780367426538

Reimagining the Higher Education StudentConstructing and Contesting Identities\nAuthor(s): Rachel Brooks, Sarah OShea\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367426538, 978-0367426538\nSynopsis\nDrawing on the perspectives of scholars and researchers from around the world, this book challenges dominant constructions of higher education students. Given the increasing number and diversity of such students, the book offers a timely discussion of the implicit and sometimes subtle ways that they are characterised or defined. Topics vary from the ways that curriculum designers imagine learners, the complex and evolving nature of student identity work, through to newspaper and TV representations of university attendees. \n\nReimagining the Higher Education Student seeks to question the accepted or unquestioned nature of being a student and instead foreground the contradictions and messiness of such ideation. Offering timely i.