Following rhythms and changing pace: Students’ strategies in relation to time in higher education
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Following rhythms and changing pace : Students’ strategies in relation to time in higher education. / Nielsen, Katia Bill; Ulriksen, Lars.
I: Teaching in Higher Education, Bind 28, Nr. 8, 2023, s. 1903–1917.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Following rhythms and changing pace
T2 - Students’ strategies in relation to time in higher education
AU - Nielsen, Katia Bill
AU - Ulriksen, Lars
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Studies of time and higher education emphasize how macro-level changes influence everyday university practices and how time is experienced and perceived in various ways. This paper adds to these studies by looking at time as infrastructure. We explore how students relate to time and unpack the challenges caused by the temporal structure of higher education. The analysis presents material from ethnographic fieldwork carried out with students following three Bachelor’s programmes. Treating time as infrastructure directs attention to the ways in which temporal structures serve to both enable and constrain practices. We found that the students related to several temporal horizons and that these required different paces, so that the horizons sometimes clashed. However, students also adopted strategies disrupting the pace and direction of the scheduled time, using cracks and openings in the temporal infrastructure to create time for immersion and reflection.
AB - Studies of time and higher education emphasize how macro-level changes influence everyday university practices and how time is experienced and perceived in various ways. This paper adds to these studies by looking at time as infrastructure. We explore how students relate to time and unpack the challenges caused by the temporal structure of higher education. The analysis presents material from ethnographic fieldwork carried out with students following three Bachelor’s programmes. Treating time as infrastructure directs attention to the ways in which temporal structures serve to both enable and constrain practices. We found that the students related to several temporal horizons and that these required different paces, so that the horizons sometimes clashed. However, students also adopted strategies disrupting the pace and direction of the scheduled time, using cracks and openings in the temporal infrastructure to create time for immersion and reflection.
U2 - 10.1080/13562517.2021.1940926
DO - 10.1080/13562517.2021.1940926
M3 - Journal article
VL - 28
SP - 1903
EP - 1917
JO - Teaching in Higher Education
JF - Teaching in Higher Education
SN - 1356-2517
IS - 8
ER -
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