Supporting research in Education Studies
Supporting research in Education Studies
About 15 years ago, as the sun was setting on the New Labour administration, several educationalists complained about what they called the ‘dangerous rise of therapeutic education’. Defining this as ‘any activity that focuses on perceived emotional problems and which aims to make educational content and learning processes more “emotionally…
Objectives Neoliberalism’s shaping of the global higher education sector is well understood. Less acknowledged however are the ways in which the lived student experience has become operationalised and developed in line with the commercial ideology of education as a business. Aims To understand the relationship between the student experience and…
In an attempt to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market, many universities emphasise the importance of attending to the student ‘experience’ and the student ‘journey’. But how do educators understand these concepts, both of which are assumed to be fundamental to engagement and retention? Previous work has gone a…