“I see stress in many places around me, but as such, I’m over it”: Understanding psycho-cultural dimensions of university students’ experiences
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“I see stress in many places around me, but as such, I’m over it” : Understanding psycho-cultural dimensions of university students’ experiences. / Madsen, Thomas; Tateo, Luca; Hammer, Pernille.
Educational Dilemmas: A Cultural Psychological Perspective. red. / Luca Tateo. 1. udg. London : Routledge, 2019. s. 146-170.Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - “I see stress in many places around me, but as such, I’m over it”
T2 - Understanding psycho-cultural dimensions of university students’ experiences
AU - Madsen, Thomas
AU - Tateo, Luca
AU - Hammer, Pernille
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This chapter presents a pilot qualitative study on the meaning-making process of 47 Danish university students about academic life and the pressure and challenges of studies. The authors were interested in knowing “how” students make sense of their experience and grasp the nuances, ambivalences and complexities of the fields of meaning related to being a student; so they created a specific questionnaire for the elicitation of ambivalence. The results suggest that it is worth looking in one direction: every initiative that the university undertakes is always two-faced. Because of the inherent ambivalence of the institutional settings, when the university promotes a specific value, it also implies its opposite. For instance, individual responsibility and collective work, hierarchical organization and personal agency co-exist and pressure emerges when students cannot negotiate meaning between these different expectations.
AB - This chapter presents a pilot qualitative study on the meaning-making process of 47 Danish university students about academic life and the pressure and challenges of studies. The authors were interested in knowing “how” students make sense of their experience and grasp the nuances, ambivalences and complexities of the fields of meaning related to being a student; so they created a specific questionnaire for the elicitation of ambivalence. The results suggest that it is worth looking in one direction: every initiative that the university undertakes is always two-faced. Because of the inherent ambivalence of the institutional settings, when the university promotes a specific value, it also implies its opposite. For instance, individual responsibility and collective work, hierarchical organization and personal agency co-exist and pressure emerges when students cannot negotiate meaning between these different expectations.
M3 - Book chapter
SP - 146
EP - 170
BT - Educational Dilemmas
A2 - Tateo, Luca
PB - Routledge
CY - London
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