Transitioning Students into Higher Education

<p><em>Transitioning Students in Higher Education</em> focuses on the relationship between philosophy pedagogy and practice when designing programs units or courses for transitioning students to new educational spaces in the university environment. The term ‘transition’ is used to describe the academic as well as social movement and acculturation of students into new higher educational spaces. </p><p>This book offers both theoretical perspectives and real-world practical examples that reveal the successes and challenges of implementing philosophically driven pedagogies with diverse transitioning cohorts. Drawing on examples from Australia New Zealand US and Canada it writes through the relationship between philosophy pedagogy and how it can effectively shape the practice of transition and develop the flourishing student. This book is split into three main sub-themes: Flourishing in Transition Engaging Diverse Cohorts and Challenges for Educators and sits at the intersections between philosophy and pedagogy in the practice of effectively engaging and transitioning different enabling groups.</p><p>This book will be of great interest to postgraduate students researchers and educators working in the areas of enabling or bridging education higher/tertiary education distance learning and indigenous as well as culturally diverse cohorts.</p>