Students Experiences of Psychosocial Problems in Higher Education

Around the world, students in higher education suffer from and deal with psychosocial problems. This phenomenon is universal and seems to be increasing.

Autorentext

Trine Wulf-Andersen is Associate Professor of youth, education and participatory research at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Lene Larsen is Associate Professor of youth, education and welfare at Roskilde University, Denmark. ****

Annie Aarup Jensen is Associate Professor of learning theory and didactics at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Lone Krogh is Associate Professor of Higher Education policies and practices, teaching and learning at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Aske Basselbjerg Stigemo is a postdoc researcher of education and learning, identity and time-environments at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Mathias Hulgård Kristiansen is PhD fellow of education, mental health and participatory research at Roskilde University, Denmark.

Inhalt

1: Battling and belonging. Students' psychosocial problems and the experience of higher education. 2: Higher education as a battlefield. Contradictions in the Danish educational context. 3: The orientation towards a student perspective. Methodological framework. 4: "If a look at myself" Poetic representations of students' negotiations of self. 5: "Like everyone else can". Shameful identities and the narrative of the 'good student' in higher education. 6: "I cannot even set the pace". Asyncronicity and inequality in an accelerated educational system. 7: "If you don't feel at ease socially". Recognition, loneliness and communities in higher education. 8: "I see it as an extra job I have". Students' extra work in making higher education accessible. 9: From battling to belonging in higher education