Place and student subjectivities in Higher Education ‘cold spots’

Henderson, Holly

Abstract

This article uses an analytical framework informed by social geographies to explore the complex relationships between Higher Education Institution, undergraduate student and place. Drawing on findings from a qualitative study exploring the experiences of college-based Higher Education students studying degree courses in Further Education Colleges in England, the article sees student subjectivities as structured through inequalities of institutional positioning in a stratified system as well as through layered local histories of industrial loss. Taken as an instance of undergraduate education in a massified and geographically unequal national context, the findings in this article offer an insight into the contradictory role played by Higher Education in its local area, particularly where a local area is defined by both a lack of and a need for increased educational opportunity.

Citation

Henderson, H. (2020). Place and student subjectivities in Higher Education ‘cold spots’. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 41(3), 331-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1703646

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 10, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Dec 19, 2019
• Publication Date: 2020
• Deposit Date: Dec 23, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 20, 2021
• Journal: British Journal of Sociology of Education
• Print ISSN: 0142-5692
• Electronic ISSN: 1465-3346
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 41
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 331-345
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2019.1703646
• Keywords: Sociology and Political Science; Education
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3612217
• Publisher URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01425692.2019.1703646
• Additional Information: Peer Review Statement: The publishing and review policy for this title is described in its Aims & Scope.; Aim & Scope: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=cbse20; Received: 2019-03-23; Revised: 2019-10-04; Accepted: 2019-12-10; Published: 2019-12-19