{"title":"Series: Understanding Student Experiences of Higher Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eUnderstanding Student Experiences of Higher Education\u003c\/strong\u003e series offers insightful perspectives into the diverse challenges and opportunities faced by students today. Drawing from interdisciplinary fields such as \u003cem\u003ephilosophy, psychology, business, and technology\u003c\/em\u003e, these works deepen our appreciation of the complex environment shaping modern higher education.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find thought-provoking analyses that transcend traditional academic studies, inviting reflection on personal growth, societal influences, and the evolving nature of learning. This collection is essential for anyone seeking a richer understanding of student life and educational innovation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"class-place-and-higher-education-by-dr-alexandra-coleman-9781350256224","title":"Class, Place, and Higher Education","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHigher education is seen to be a means to \"the\" good life and is a dominant way societies distribute hope for social mobility. But does higher education deliver on its promise?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book attends to the hopes, experiences, and trajectories of working-class students and graduates from Western Sydney – an area that is imagined, from the outside, to be a place of lack and stagnation, the \"other\" Sydney. \u003cem\u003eClass, Place, and Higher Education\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the myth that participation in higher education necessarily leads to upward social mobility and traces how the rewards of higher education are unevenly distributed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt considers how visions of a good life are class differentiated and makes an argument for the significance of place when examining experiences of higher education. Rather than focus on university as a means to becoming middle class, the book examines how university becomes a means to \"a\" good life, not \"the\" good life. This good life is embedded in place, in working-class places like Western Sydney, and is one that becomes more complex and ambivalent through the process of going to university.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough an attention to the existential and social dimensions of mobility, Alexandra Coleman develops the term \"homely mobility\" to describe the pull of people and place, and small-scale degrees of mobility in place – to a better street, the suburb next door, the university down the road. Structural inequalities are an embodied dimension of social being and action, and through the lens of homely mobility, this book affords insights into broader processes of social reproduction and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596010373356,"sku":"9781350256224","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f9a39d77e503e15c7a3e9d0cdf8cfa27.jpg?v=1777932244"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/series-understanding-student-experiences-of-higher-education.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}