Young People In Higher Education Research Articles

The construction of safe space: empowerment and the perception of vulnerability at Anglican Foundation Universities in England

ABSTRACT Young adults in university environments are increasingly exploring gender variant identities and challenging binary constructions. Knowledge about the lived experiences of trans and non-binary young people in higher education, however, is partial. Our research into Anglican Foundation Universities in England begins to address this lacuna. In particular, chaplains may find themselves acting as a bridge between the equality, diversity and inclusivity policies of universities and the Anglican Church’s official rejection of both same-sex marriage and the writing of new liturgies for trans folk; this may be especially the case for queer students who have personal connections with the Christian faith. We argue there is a need for deeper reflection on the notion of safe space and the cis-construction of trans and non-binary folk as vulnerable and we ask whether protection and vulnerability discourses create contradictions that undermine agency and positive visibility of trans and non-binary young people. This article adds to research in the field by bringing together religious and gendered identities at UK universities; it draws on interviews with trans and non-binary folk to explore experiences of chaplaincies and campus spaces.

Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections.

to analyze the social representations about sexually transmitted infections elaborated by undergraduate students. a descriptive, qualitative study, in the light of the structural approach of Social Representation Theory, carried out with 160 young undergraduate students, in the second half of 2019, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Data were collected using a sociodemographic characterization questionnaire, knowledge and practices for preventing sexually transmitted infections, analyzed using descriptive statistics and a form of free evocations with the inducing term STD, analyzed using prototypical and similarity analysis. the representation's possible central nucleus is composed of lexicons aids, disease and HIV; the peripheral system by syphilis, sex, condoms, gonorrhea, prevention, infection, carelessness, HPV, herpes, ignorance, treatment, fear, unprotected-sex and danger. social thinking about sexually transmitted infections is characterized by their recognition as diseases, which require barrier prevention measures, associating with unsafe sexual practices that arouse fear.

Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections

RESUMO Objetivo: analisar as representações sociais sobre as infecções sexualmente transmissíveis elaboradas por jovens universitários. Métodos: estudo descritivo, qualitativo, à luz da abordagem estrutural da Teoria das Representações Sociais, realizado com 160 jovens universitários, no segundo semestre de 2019, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro. Os dados foram coletados por questionário de caracterização sociodemográfica, conhecimentos e práticas de prevenção das infecções sexualmente transmissíveis, analisados pela estatística descritiva e por formulário de evocações livres com o termo indutor DST, analisadas pela análise prototípica e de similitude. Resultados: o possível núcleo central da representação é composto pelos léxicos aids, doença e HIV; o sistema periférico, por sífilis, sexo, camisinha, gonorreia, prevenção, infecção, descuido, HPV, herpes, desconhecimento, tratamento, medo, sexo-sem-proteção e perigo. Considerações finais: o pensamento social sobre as infecções sexualmente transmissíveis caracteriza-se pelo seu reconhecimento como doenças que requerem medidas de prevenção de barreira, e associam-se a práticas sexuais inseguras que despertam medo.

Assessing a Happiness and Wellbeing Course in the United Arab Emirates: It is What They Want, but is it What They Need?

Courses that target wellbeing have grown in higher education. Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs), the empirically validated activities designed to generate wellbeing, form the bulk of these courses. Their effectiveness has been documented across global meta-analyses; but less so in the Middle East/North Africa region and in classroom settings. Given the stigma of mental health, we developed and evaluated a happiness and wellbeing course to determine whether it could yield greater wellbeing in the United Arab Emirates. A semester-long happiness and wellbeing course (i.e., positive psychology) offering weekly PPIs was evaluated against pre- and post measures of subjective wellbeing, positive and negative emotion, a fear of happiness, locus of control, individualism and collectivism, somatic symptoms and stress. Only a statistically significant decrease in participant’s fear of happiness was recorded; no other impact was evident. PPIs, while normally effective, may be less so in raising wellbeing in a classroom setting where academic pressures may conflict with necessary insight and growth. Alternatively, it may be that these interventions are less effective in non-Western contexts where happiness and wellbeing are not considered urgent or essential goals, and where distress and wellbeing may co-exist more comfortably. Thus, despite such courses being of great interest in popular discourse and regularly used to support government agendas and institutional initiatives, they may not always be impactful routes to building the wellbeing of young people in higher education. More critical assessment of their outcomes and further study into how they can be better adapted for regional audiences is the way forward.

CARACTERIZAÇÃO DA PRODUÇÃO CIENTÍFICA STRICTO SENSU EM PSICOLOGIA SOBRE JOVENS UNIVERSITÁRIOS (2008-2017)

ABSTRACT This article aims to characterize and systematize the scientific production by Brazilian stricto sensu postgraduate courses in Psychology regarding young people in Higher Education, developed from 2008 to 2017. The state of knowledge was outlined by means of keyword searches in the CAPES theses and dissertations catalog. In the end of the search, 78 works were selected, and information, obtained by reading the abstracts, was tabulated in Excel spreadsheets and analyzed quantitatively, considering: a) region, b) institution, c) year of defense, d) theoretical perspective, e) types of research, f) methodological procedures and g) themes studied. Among the results, the following stand out: the studies mostly come from the Southeast region; there is a greater number of productions and qualitative research works between the years 2013 and 2017. Concerning young people’s health, themes and studies on the true meaning of policies for access and permanence in Higher Education predominate.

Top Tips on How to Support Care-Experienced Young People in Higher Education

The Care Leaver Covenant is a national programme to support care leavers to live independently. The programme and its partner organisations put together this advice for children's services professionals and universities on what good practice looks like

The Problem of the “Lost Intelligentsia” and Its Solutions in the Lithuanian Press of the Late Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Century

The Problem of the “Lost Intelligentsia” and Its Solutions in the Lithuanian Press of the Late Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Century

Understanding student mental health: difficulty, deflection and darkness

ABSTRACT With a particular focus on the experience of young people in higher education, this paper turns to the philosophical work of Cora Diamond to open up new ways of conceptualising mental health. We claim that Diamond offers a compelling insight into that experience of human difficulty so often subsumed by a medicalised vocabulary. We propose that she offers philosophically astute perceptions of the related human attempts at deflection (as when those same difficulties are avoided because of their lack of fit with the established discourse). And we situate this reading of Diamond against a broader understanding of the contemporary university as a place of institutional darkness. In developing this general discussion, we place ourselves within a very particular context. We draw on the narratives of a number of third-level students in Ireland, who shared their experiences as part of a hermeneutic phenomenological study into the lived experience of mental health difficulties.

Educational Leadership as the Impact of Teachers in the Formation of the Attitude of Students from a Manichean Perspective

This document is about the reflection that it has fallen into a social paradigm of unwanted leadership, so it is necessary to change the paradigm of Kuhn and apply it and train young people in higher education, through Educational Institution, where values are taught and learned that must differentiate between the Nicomachean ethics and the attitudes towards the work groups that they will direct so that they take them to a state of true work teams. Some authors who use values and attitudes to establish future leadership projects are analyzed. Mention is made in the introduction and with a major emphasis on Aristotle's Nicomaquea ethics, taking into account the unseating by leaders who have given bad examples in ethics and applying a theoretical platform of the concept of educational leadership and providing what should be the educational profile with a method of analysis between ethics and values in leadership with a development focused on moral and spiritual values , and that finally concludes by contrasting the values mentioned in this article with the anti-values that educational leaders often apply in practices even if that is not their intention. In the hope in this article that this article will serve teachers and students, that the former have the role of being leaders and the latter will then be played either in their field of work, as in other communities and social interactions with the environment.

Sintomas associados a transtornos mentais comuns no contexto universitário

Objetivo: identificar sintomas associados a transtornos menores psicóticos em estudantes universitários de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior (IES) pública do interior cearense. Metodologia: Trata-se de um estudo descritivo, transversal e abordagem quantitativa, desenvolvido de abril a maio de 2019 com 75 estudantes de graduação utilizando a adaptação do questionário de identificação de transtornos mentais comuns (TMC). Resultados: A prevalência de TMC na população foi de (49%), entre 18 a 23 anos (84%), com sintomas somáticos em (32%) da população e decréscimo de energia (29%) além de depressão e/ou humor ansioso com prevalência nos primeiros semestres da graduação (39%). Conclusão: Os TMC são problemas importantes para indivíduos jovens e que estão no ensino superior. Ressalta-se a necessidade de intervenções na comunidade acadêmica, por parte da gestão, funcionários, profissionais e estudantes com foco no empoderamento e tratamento das causas base dos transtornos.

Is there evidence of ‘whitening’ for Asian/White multiracial people in Britain?

ABSTRACT Growing rates of interracial unions in multi-ethnic societies such as Britain are notable, and point to significant changes in the blurring and possibly shifting nature of ethnic and racial boundaries. Asian Americans who partner with White Americans are assumed to engage in ‘whitening’ – both in terms of their aspirations and their social consequences. Yet little is still known about the aftermath of intermarriage, even in the USA. Drawing on this US literature, this paper considers the whitening thesis in relation to multiracial people in Britain, with a particular focus on Asian/White multiracial people. I draw upon the findings of two British studies – one of multiracial young people in higher education (Aspinall, Peter, and Miri Song. 2013. Mixed Race Identities. London: Palgrave Macmillan), and another of multiracial people who are parents (Song, Miri. 2017. Multiracial Parents: Mixed Race Families, Generational Change and the Future of Race. New York: NYU Press) – to explore these questions. I argue that conceptualizations of part Asian people (in the USA) as leaning toward their White heritages are often unsubstantiated, and deduced primarily from one key factor: their high rates of intermarriage with White spouses. Little attention has been given to part Asian people who try to maintain ties with their Asian ancestries. We must consider the ambivalence, tensions, and contextually variable identifications and practices adopted by multiracial Asian people.

The strategy of a specialization choice of young people in higher education

The study of the general educational strategy of students improves the efficiency of the entire training system. Such studies facilitate the organization of the educational process for students, enable the younger generation to more quickly adapt to the labor market. Today, domestic science feels the inadequacy of such research, and this in turn affects the system of higher education in Kazakhstan. Limited information about the educational strategies of Kazakhstan students awakens interest in conducting a holistic study of this problem. The article provides an analysis of the empirical research, opportunities for young people in the field of education, shows the system problems of higher educational institutions in Kazakhstan, the formation of specific organizational solutions, as well as directions in solving these problems. The purpose of the article is to identify strategies by identifying the motives of students in Kazakhstani universities. The research question of the article was as follows: What are the reasons for the educational choice of modern youth? What is the role of the current education system in meeting the educational strategies of students in higher education? What are the students' plans in education and science? Data collection was carried out using a complex of quantitative and qualitative methods. In the first case, a questionnaire was used (1200 questionnaires), in which students, undergraduates and doctoral students from national and state universities of Kazakhstan participated. In-depth interviews and focus group research was conducted among undergraduates and doctoral students. In the general section of the sample, the respondents were distributed as follows: students - 60%, undergraduates - 30%, doctoral students - 10%. This proportion reflects the characteristics of the general population of this social group. The survey was conducted in large universities (LN Gumilyov ENU, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, KNTU named after KI Satpayev, KarSU named after academician E. Buketov) in three major cities of Kazakhstan (Astana, Almaty, Karaganda ). These cities provide thousands of young people with the opportunity to receive education and achieve their life goals. These quantitative research results were processed in the SPSS computer program and analyzed. The theoretical and practical importance of the article lies in the elaborated statements that contribute to the further development and enrichment of data in the field of the sociology of science, the sociology of education, educational and scientific programs, educational concepts. As a result of the study, the authors show types that are characterized by different motives and performance of each social group of young people, as well as the influence of a complex of factors of different levels of educational strategies. The integrated use of quantitative and qualitative methods in the collection of empirical information will help to obtain complete information for determining the educational and scientific strategies of the youth of modern Kazakhstan. Keywords: educational strategies, student youth, higher education, motivation

The ‘success’ of Looked After Children in Higher Education in England: near peer coaching, ‘small steps’ and future thinking

ABSTRACTThis paper addresses the shortage of studies on the ‘success’ of care-experienced young people in Higher Education (HE) internationally. It draws on the findings of a study of a near peer, pre-entry coaching intervention developed in England to address stakeholders’ concerns around a lack of ‘success’ post entry to university, linked to gaps in knowledge and the challenge of providing ongoing support. In delivering reciprocal benefits to the coaches, some of whom were care-experienced themselves, the HE Champions model promoted the possibility of longer term ‘success’. The personalised nature of the young people’s programme experiences and difficulties in recruitment highlighted the need for ‘success’ to be conceptualised as ‘small steps’ despite pressure to deliver more measurable outcomes. The research also highlighted the importance of reflexive, human-scale systems that put care and relationships at the centre.

Retención en la educación universitaria en Chile. Aplicación de un modelo de ecuaciones estructurales

Este estudio tiene como objetivo analizar las trayectorias educativas en relación a la retención de los estudiantes universitarios chilenos, proponiendo un modelo explicativo con factores familiares, académico-educativos y económicos. Además, se analizó la variabilidad del modelo utilizando datos de estudiantes de las áreas de la salud y la educación. El modelo incorporó las propuestas de autores como Tinto y Bean, incluyendo otras experiencias tanto nacionales como internacionales. Se concluye que existen diferentes trayectorias posibles para la permanencia de los jóvenes en la educación superior, en donde los orígenes socio-económicos son determinantes debido a los altos niveles de desigualdad predominantes en la sociedad chilena.

Educação superior e a eficácia dos mecanismos de financiamento das políticas públicas no Canadá

Esta pesquisa analisa a eficácia dos mecanismos de financiamento das principais políticas públicas para a educação superior no Canadá no período de 2003 a 2012, pressupondo uma lacuna quanto à proposição de novas políticas públicas para auxiliar no financiamento do ensino superior em todo o mundo. No que se refere aos procedimentos metodológicos, o estudo foi concebido como exploratório e quantitativo. Analisou estatisticamente um conjunto de políticas públicas usando como referência a taxa de crescimento anual composta (CAGR), calculada, por sua vez, com base no investimento realizado e no número de estudantes atendidos durante o período analisado. Os resultados mostraram que o Canadá provou ser um país de políticas públicas sólidas e bem definidas, que tiveram um impacto no bom desempenho do país, com destaque para: a CESG, que apresenta uma maneira pró-ativa de garantir o acesso e permanência de jovens na educação superior; o CSGP/CSLP, que foi estatisticamente significativo em relação à porcentagem de estudantes atendidos; e o OSAP / Reaching Higher, que foi mais sensível em relação às necessidades do contexto em que está inserido (província de Ontário).

Juventud de los estudiantes universitarios

The aim of this paper is to emphasize the student participation in constructing and deconstructing the meaning of their youth. It focuses on the disputes between them and the university authorities in regard of social representations of young people in higher education, and underlines the process whereby the students disengaged from the institution, during the 20th and 21st centuries.

Educação superior no Brasil: a resistência da filantropia para garantir o acesso universal à universidade

O relato de experiência recobra a luta pela manutenção da Filantropia no Brasil, mediante a Reforma da Previdência, que garante acesso a mais de 600 mil estudantes da Educação Básica e Educação Superior, totalmente gratuitos, em instituições de educação públicas comunitárias. Objetiva-se sensibilizar o leitor para construir uma política de cooperação entre as Instituições de Ensino Superior (IES) públicas estatais e públicas comunitárias como estratégia para o acesso e permanência dos jovens empobrecidos na Educação Superior Trata-se do relato de vivências dos autores e suas instituições parceiras na luta pela manutenção da Filantropia como dispositivo para garantir o acesso e permanência de mais jovens na educação superior. O relato é acompanhado de dados documentais e diário de campo dos pesquisadores em suas ações junto à sociedade, governo e entidades educacionais. As Aprendizagens evidenciam: o desconhecimento do governo, dos parlamentares e sociedade sobre o tema; o reducionismo do conceito do que é público; a resistência das associações e pessoas pela causa filantrópica e a mobilização política das entidades filantrópicas na sensibilização dos parlamentares para um novo conceito de serviço público. Conclui-se pela resistência e vigilância na manutenção de vários dispositivos para a garantia da filantropia como forma de acesso à Educação Superior, especialmente dos jovens pobres.

COOPERATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND REGIONAL ENTERPRISES IN THE TRAINING OF SPECIALISTS WITHOUT CONTACTING WITH PRODUCTION: EXPERIENCE OF THE 70S

The article is devoted to the studing of the historical experience of the integration of higher education and industry gained in the 70th of the Soviet Union as an example of a given region. The aim of the researching is to identify the characteristics of co-operation of higher education and enterprises in organizing training of students-production workers (students learnt by part-time and evening forms). The method or the methodology of the work is a theoretical analysis of the literature in the study, an analysis of the documents of the regional archives. The results of these researches are: the problems which ap-peared in higher education institutions and enterprises in the 70s in building partnerships are faced and the ways are identified; the characteristics of the Soviets generated in the production are learnt, the directions of the organization of work in involving young people in higher education are showed. Presented forms of integration have been tested in the history of the national high school; some of them are relevant in present time. The area of application of the results: The research let us not only identify the root causes of problems solved with higher education at present stage, but also avoid the past mistakes, the best way to predict the development of regional higher education in a long period of time. The author is convinced that a detailed study of the forms of cooperation between higher education and production in a clustering will extrapolate some of them in the new social-economic relations in the production and creation of educational clusters.

The Long-Term Effects of a University Outreach Programme: Implications on Higher Education Enrolment

Consistent evidences outline a global increase in enrolment of young people in higher education. Nevertheless, the under-representation in higher education of students of low socio-economic status (‘SES’) is still evident. The current study reports the results of a follow-up that has been conducted among 198 former Israeli high-school students, living in the city of Tel Aviv, who participated in a university outreach programme and who are now in their 30s. The findings indicate that the university outreach programme significantly contributed to the enrolment of low SES students in higher education (HE) alongside promoting among them the idea of meritocracy. It was found that all former participants — including those who did not continue to higher education — attribute their success/failure to pursue higher education to their own personal abilities. By doing so, they all actually legitimize social inequality. In light of these findings, it is suggested that outreach programmes can motivate disadvantaged students to enrol in higher education but they cannot challenge the social order.

Part of the British mainstream? British Muslim students and Islamic Student Associations

In recent years, fear of ‘the other’ has focused particularly on ‘home grown’ second-generation Muslims. In the aftermath of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, there was particular horror and incredulity expressed about the fact that many of the bombers had been born and raised in Britain, and universities have been increasingly regarded by various analysts and politicians as potential ‘hotbeds of extremism.’ Yet apart from sensationalistic images of British Muslims as threatening radicals, we still have relatively little in-depth information about the vast majority of ordinary British Muslim young people in higher education. This article explores young British Muslim students' views and experiences of Islamic Student Associations (ISOCs) at three universities in the southeast. What motivates Muslim students to join ISOCs and can we determine clear differences between those who join ISOCs and those who do not? While there is growing evidence that younger British Muslims are more politicized than their parents, and are more likely to mobilize around their identity as Muslims, most British Muslim students' involvement in ISOCs does not pose a threat to British society or to their ability to negotiate their British and Muslim sense of selves.