Attending to the affective: exploring first year students� emotional experiences at university

dc.contributor.authorBharuthram, Sharita
dc.date.accessioned02/07/2019 11:25
dc.date.available02/07/2019 11:25
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractThis study engaged students at the affective level in order to acquire a better understanding of their emotional experiences at university with the ultimate aim of improving teaching and learning. A qualitative research study was undertaken whereby students wrote about their feelings at that particular moment, on two different occasions in a semester. The data reveals that students used mostly negative descriptors to express their emotions some of which included feelings of self-doubt, alienation, loss of identity and not belonging to the university and their disciplinary community. The feelings expressed by students show that their emotions constitute the very core of their being and are therefore intertwined with the way they perceive their studies and themselves as students and as individuals. Hence, it is argued that emotional factors cannot be disentangled from teaching and learning and that spaces need to therefore be created in the curriculum for the inclusion of the affective domain.en_US
dc.identifier.citationBharuthram, S. (2018). Attending to the affective: exploring first year students� emotional experiences at university. South African Journal of Higher Education, 32(2), 27�42. DOI: https://doi.org/10.20853/32-2-2113en_US
dc.identifier.issn1753-5913
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.20853/32-2-2113
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/4689
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSouth African Journal of Higher Educationen_US
dc.subjectHigher educationen_US
dc.subjectEmotionsen_US
dc.subjectWell-being
dc.subjectUndergraduate studentsen_US
dc.subjectFirst year experience (FYE)en_US
dc.subjectStudent experience
dc.subjectFirst year studentsen_US
dc.titleAttending to the affective: exploring first year students� emotional experiences at universityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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