Reimagining the Higher Education Student

1. Reimagining the higher education student: an introduction 2. On becoming a university student: young people and the 'illusio' of higher education 3. "She's like, 'you're a uni student now'": the influence of mother-daughter relationships on the constructions of learner identities of first-in-family girls 4. Constructions of nakseuk-saa: tracing contested imaginings of the Thai university student 5. The shifting subjectification of the 'widening participation' student: the affective world of the 'deserving' consumer 6. Dispelling the myth of the 'traditional' university undergraduate student in the UK 7. Imagining the constructivist student online: actively engaged learner or vulnerable student in need? 8. Dominant higher education imaginaries: forced perspectives, ontological limits and recognising the imaginer's frame 9. Reframing the 'traditional learner' into the 'partner' in higher education: conflicting subjectivities and behavioural expectations of the undergraduate 'student' in UK universities 10. Constructing the university student in British documentary television 11. Constructing students as family members: contestations in media and policy representations across Europe 12. Student millennials/Millennial students: how the lens of generation constructs understandings of the contemporary HE student 13. Exploring spaces in-between: Reimagining the Chinese student in a transnational higher education context in China 14. Between international student and immigrant: a critical perspective on Angolan and Cape Verdean students in Portugal