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'I'm not sure where home is': narratives of student mobilities into and through higher education
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'I'm not sure where home is': narratives of student mobilities into and through higher education

Kieran Balloo, Karen Gravett and Gemma Erskine
British journal of sociology of education, Vol.42(7), pp.1022-1036
10/2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2021.1959298
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Abstract

student mobility transition materiality becoming rhizome posthumanism
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 student experience". In response, recent literature has begun to trouble the thinking around student mobilities. Building on this work, this study draws upon semi-structured interviews with students who have moved away from home into university residences in order to surface the multiplicity and diversity of mobilities and transitions. Engaging concepts from posthumanist and poststructuralist theory, we propose a reconceptualisation of students' mobilities and transitions as rhizomatic, and as ongoing becomings. Furthermore, we also surface the materiality of students' experiences, acknowledging the role of the non-human within students' mobilities. As a result, we extend the emerging work attending to more complex depictions of students' mobilities, and examine the implications of acknowledging the heterogeneity, materiality and granularity of students' experiences.

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