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Sociagogy. Uniting the social, spatial and learning experiences of university students
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University of Bradford
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Department of Psychology. Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences
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2024
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Higher Education is focused on how students learn individually and the development of campus spaces to support teaching and learning, which has directed the attention of prior research. However, there are knowledge gaps which result in a partial understanding of how students learn at university: lack of connection between social groups and learning, emphasis on studying, single space research, snapshot studies, absence of student voice and lack of integrated findings on learning, campus, and student experience. The aim of this thesis is to build a student-centred understanding of social learning and use of campus over time. It reports on a student-centred, qualitative and longitudinal place-based study, that captured the COVID-19 era. New method protocols combined walking interviews, participant photography and researcher mapping with synchronic and diachronic analysis. This innovative approach resulted in new insights on how students use campus, why they prefer specific spaces and how the institution itself affects usage of space, student networks and the wider university experience. Novel findings on changes over time within social groups and students’ routines are also discussed. This thesis challenges staff assumptions and provides a unique student-centred perspective of university. This work concludes with presentation of sociagogy. This is the student-centred understanding that reveals the central role of campus and the importance of the social experience, as students do not learn in isolation from socialising.
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