What Else Do Students Need? A Psychodynamic Reflection on Students' Need for Support from Staff at University

Autor/in	Baker, Amanda
Titel	What Else Do Students Need? A Psychodynamic Reflection on Students' Need for Support from Staff at University
Quelle	In: Active Learning in Higher Education: The Journal of the Institute for Learning and Teaching, 7 (2006) 2, S.171-183 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1469-7874
DOI	10.1177/1469787406064751
Schlagwörter	Student Needs; School Personnel; College Faculty; College Students; Individual Development; Socialization; Self Concept; Psychology; Psychological Patterns; Teacher Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulpersonal; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Individuelle Entwicklung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Selbstkonzept; Psychologie; Lehrerrolle
Abstract	This article considers university staff's place in students' worlds from a psychodynamic perspective. It looks at "studenthood" as a psychological stage, in which relationship to university and university staff is seen as being recruited into a personal developmental context. It sketches some psychodynamic background for understanding the role students unconsciously assign to staff, in terms of concepts such as transference, projection and containment. It makes connections between mechanisms for early infancy social learning about self/identity and the identity-establishing responses which students need at their stage too. It uses this understanding to explain some of the difficulties which can be experienced in responding to troubled students. We can extrapolate from the more difficult end of the spectrum to inform our general understanding about the dynamics of students' need for responsiveness and "help," and the article finally briefly considers "help" and "problems" as usually being developmental rather than pathological agents of students' learning process. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10