Constructing ‘ideal’ students within contemporary higher education: editorial introduction

ABSTRACT

This special issue focuses on the concept of the ‘ideal’ higher education student. It explores how this concept is played out in different national contexts and the implications it has for particular groups of students and their experiences within higher education. In this editorial introduction, we introduce the seven papers that make up the special issue, and then discuss some of the cross-cutting themes – showing how the papers help to advance our knowledge in this area.

KEYWORDS:

• Student
• higher education
• ‘ideal’ students

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the European Research Council for awarding a Consolidator to Grant to Rachel Brooks (681018_EUROSTUDENTS) that funded the research time for compiling this special issue.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the H2020 European Research Council [681018_EUROSTUDENTS].