University of Twente Student Theses
Student-Teacher Relationships : How Is the Relationship With your Teacher related to Student Well-Being : Barriers in the student-teacher relationship
Kastrian, Maike (2023) Student-Teacher Relationships : How Is the Relationship With your Teacher related to Student Well-Being : Barriers in the student-teacher relationship.
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| Abstract: | Introduction: The student-teacher relationship has to be seen increasingly important in higher education students. This relationship has been linked to many important areas in a student's life. Influencing their academic success, development and essentially student well-being in general. Existing research has been focusing on many aspects of the student teacher relationship by which there have been only a few focused on barriers specifically in the higher educational context. Therore, the main aim of this study was to investigate higher education students' perceptions of existing barriers that hinder them from forming a beneficial relationship with their teachers. The second aim focused on identifying the three most frequent barriers. Methods: A qualitative study with in-depth interviews was conducted. 18 students (50% female, M 21.7 + SD 0.9) from the University of Twente took part. Thematic analysis was used to examine the transcripts, from which a coding schema was then created. Results: The analysis revealed three key themes: ‘Teacher characteristics, ‘Cultural barriers’ and ‘Power imbalances’. These themes provided a good overview of students' perspectives, including attitudes, generational differences, character traits, language barriers, limited worldviews, authority, intimidation and exclusion as potential barriers. With attitude, character traits and exclusion , write down from most to least, are the three most frequently mentioned barrieres. Discussion: Overall, the study revealed many barriers that give comprehensive insights on student-teacher relationships in higher education. Most of them can be supported by previous research. The findings added power imbalances as a new under researched aspect in this field. Nevertheless, limitations could be identified such as concerns about representativeness. Recommendations suggest to further investigate the new identified barrier to justify. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/95214 |
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