The shift towards an ecological university may be the key to achieving greater levels of
social justice within higher education. This assumes that we could change the root metaphor …

Students' engagement in extra-curricular activities can play a significant role in their
development of a student identity, as well as leading to a greater sense of belonging and …

This article focuses on a method of data collection that exists in the margins of qualitative
research: story completion. Story completion has a background of usage within disciplines …

What do meaningful connections in learning and teaching look like, and how might we foster
these? How might the concept of mattering be helpful for our understanding of higher …

This article employs a new approach to understanding student transition. This area of theory
and practice has developed a huge global significance. However, transition as a concept is …

This paper's purpose is to review theoretical explanations of college transitions, offer a
critique of their utility, and make an explicit argument that the field of higher education would …

This paper aims to contribute fresh insights into youth participatory action research (YPAR)
by using bell hooks' engaged pedagogy to illuminate the process of co-designing a program …

EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Amid debates about the future
of both higher education and Europeanisation, this book is the first full-length exploration of …

The relevance of participating in structured extracurricular activities (ECA from here
onwords) in higher education is increasing. Involvement in these activities helps students …

The concept of a typical pathway to becoming a student is a pervasive narrative within
higher education, with moving away from home to live at university framed as the “traditional …