Description
Book SynopsisEdward Omeni draws on concepts from sociology, psychology, and social pedagogical research to examine experiences of violence among international students in Poland. His research study places particular focus on the range of strategies adopted by the students in response to forms of personal and social violence as well as the resulting forms of social exclusion and precariousness. By means of a detailed analysis of narrative accounts, the dynamics of coping with violence are theorized in the situational/social-cultural context of higher education in Poland, where aspects of intercultural relations and identity struggles of ethnic and cultural minorities remain relatively understudied.
Table of ContentsThe Internationalisation of Higher Education.- International Education and Precarity in the Polish context.- Violence as a Social Process: Victims, Perpetrators and Observers.- Narrative Framings of Violence and Racism.- Psychosocial Perspectives on Coping .- Student Self Forming and Identity.- Coping as a Symbolic Endeavour.- Coping in Life Transitions.- Documentary Analysis of Narrative Interviews.
