Place and student subjectivities in Higher Education 'cold spots'. Issue 3 (2nd April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Henderson, Holly
• Is Part Of: British journal of sociology of education. Volume 41:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 331
• Page End: 345
• Publication Date: 2020-04-02
• Subjects: Higher Education -- place -- social geography -- narrative -- Further Education; Educational sociology -- Great Britain -- Periodicals; 306.43
• DOI: 10.1080/01425692.2019.1703646
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0142-5692

Abstract

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.