Universities in Transition: Foregrounding Social Contexts of Knowledge in the First Year Experience

Brook

ISBN 10: 1922064823 / ISBN 13: 9781922064820

Published by University of Adelaide Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Universities in Transition: Foregrounding Social Contexts of Knowledge in the First Year Experience
• Publisher: University of Adelaide Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1922064823
• ISBN 13: 9781922064820
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

For some time now the terms ‘transition to university’ and ‘first-year experience’ have been at the centre of discussion and discourse at, and about, Australian universities. For those university administrators, researchers and teachers involved, this focus has been framed by a number of interlinked factors ranging from social justice concerns to the hard economic realities confronting the contemporary corporatising university. In the midst of changing global economic conditions affecting the international student market, as well as shifting domestic politics surrounding university funding, the equation of dollars with student numbers has remained a constant, and has kept universities’ attention on the current ‘three Rs’ of higher education — recruitment, retention, reward — and, in particular, on the critical phase of students’ entry into the tertiary institution environment. This book seeks to reconceptualise the ‘first-year experience’ and interrogate taken-for-granted understandings of what ‘the university’ is, and consider what universities might yet become.