- Title
- Capability, belonging and mis/recognition in higher education
- Creator
- Burke, Penny-Jane; Bennett, Anna
- Relation
- SRHE Annual Research Conference 2015. Proceedings of the SRHE Annual Research Conference 2015 (Newport, UK 9-11 December, 2015)
- Relation
- https://www.srhe.ac.uk/conference2015/
- Publisher
- Society Research into Higher Education (SRHE)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Although deficit discourses shape assumptions and judgements about student capability, there is a dearth of research that examines those constructions. Questions of ‘mattering’ are deeply tied to processes of subjective construction in which unequal positionings profoundly shape student ‘capability’ across pedagogical spaces. Through a critical analysis of empirical data from research conducted in Australia, this paper explores the meanings attached to ‘capability’ and considers the ways that these meanings shape the experiences, practices and sense of belonging of students from non-traditional backgrounds. This analysis is informed by a post-structural framework, which understands subjectivity as formed through discourses and performatives that are deeply entangled with the politics of mis/recognition. By bringing this politics to the fore, we seek to better understand the ‘politics of access and participation ... of who is seen as having the right to higher education’.
- Subject
- higher education; capability; belonging; students
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1326893
- Identifier
- uon:25530
- Language
- eng
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