Understanding Wellbeing in Higher Education of the Global South

Contextually Sensitive and Culturally Responsive Perspectives

Youmen Chaaban, Abdellatif Sellami, Igor Michaleczek

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040229552
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

This edited book gives voice to previously unheard narratives on wellbeing in higher education and provides novel implications for higher education policy and practice.

Offering contextually sensitive and culturally responsive perspectives, the book problematizes wellbeing in higher education as it is currently theorized in the Global North, bringing to the fore perspectives and multi-disciplinary insights from the Global South region. Chapters present an alternative conceptualization of wellbeing in higher education based on stories, perceptions, and experiences of university students, faculty, and leaders from the Global South region, challenging a reductionist view of wellbeing and embracing its complexity, multi-dimensionality and context-sensitivity. The authors present an alternative non-Western approach to thinking, researching, and doing wellbeing in higher education, offering clear guidelines to support teachers, educational researchers, and leaders in fostering a more holistic teaching and learning experience.

This volume will stimulate policy development and enactment, as well as university-wide interventions and practices that can make a difference in the lives of students in higher education.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Series preface
• Opening editorial notes
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Wellbeing odyssey: Integrating Afrofuturist theory with academic literacy
• 3 Exploring wellbeing in the Arab higher education context: A scoping review
• 4 Student wellbeing in the Pacific Islands: Challenges and opportunities for enhancing academic success
• 5 The science of wellbeing and success in higher education: Applying positive psychology and PERMA+4 across cultures
• 6 University students’ wellbeing: Diversity across contexts
• 7 Students’ wellbeing in online and blended Arabic as second and heritage language courses: Challenges and suggested solutions
• 8 Beyond borders: Understanding wellbeing in higher education through culturally appropriate measures
• 9 Challenges to wellbeing of faculty and leaders in higher education in the Gulf Cooperation Council
• 10 Conclusion
• Index