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Living and learning: students' talk and advice in university culture

Brooks, Kate

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Kate Brooks



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Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Social Policy and So
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Abstract

This paper discusses students’ talk about their expectations and experiences of living and learning at university. Drawing on two qualitative research projects at the University of the West of England, this paper considers how a discursive analysis approach to students talk offers new ways of conceptualising the student experience, namely, the ways in which students draw on and invest in what can be termed, ‘modalities of learning’. The paper will then go on to introduce four key ‘modalities’ and highlight the implications those modalities have for both the theory and practice of teaching and learning.

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Brooks, K. (2008). Living and learning: students' talk and advice in university culture. In Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Social Policy and So (Ed.), University life uncovered: Making sense of the student experience (34-43). SWAP

Publication Date Jan 1, 2008
Deposit Date Nov 24, 2010
Publicly Available Date Dec 2, 2016
Journal University Life Uncovered
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 34-43
Series Title Monograph
Series Number 1
Book Title University life uncovered: Making sense of the student experience
ISBN 9780854328901
Keywords students, learning, modalities, investment, discourse
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1017250
Publisher URL http://www.swap.ac.uk/resources/publs/monographs.html

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