- Title
- The lenses we use to research student experiences:
- Creator
- Hlengwa, Amanda I
- Creator
- McKenna, Sioux
- Creator
- Njovane, Thandokazi
- Date Issued
- 2018
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/142736
- Identifier
- vital:38112
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781928331902
- Identifier
- http://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/e3388578-a030-46de-8d8e-df18dcb52bec/Higher_Education_Pathways_9781928331902.pdf#page=160
- Description
- The recent student protests that erupted in the South African higher education landscape in 2015 and 2016 suggest that research concerning student experiences in our institutions has become all the more crucial. In light of this, our chapter argues for theoretically rigorous and conceptually rich approaches to research on the student experience, without which we will not be in a position to address the significant concerns raised by these protests. There is, of course, already a robust body of work detailing the student experience (for example Case, 2013; Case, Marshall, McKenna, and Mogashana, 2018; Walker and Wilson-Strydom, 2017). However, questions are often raised about the extent to which such research is being drawn on in subsequent studies (Niven, 2012) and this suggests that limited accounts of student experience remain dominant despite this body of research (Boughey and McKenna, 2016). It thus seemed important to make sense of the ways in which current research on student experience is being constructed.
- Format
- 14 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- African Minds, Cape Town
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Hlengwa, A., McKenna, S. and Njovane, T., 2018. The lenses we use to research student experiences. In Higher Education Pathways, African Minds p.149-162.
- Rights
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the African Minds Statement (http://www.africanminds.co.za/)
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