Introduction: Rethinking Private Higher Education: A Collection of Ethnographic Perspectives

Anxiety and learning

“…Further, naming threatens some students' identity, triggering frustration and anger (Tanaka 2008), such as when discussions of white privilege or toxic masculinity may alienate whites and men. This occurs in educational institutions that are already objects of public apprehension (Pew 2017; Turnage 2017) and sites of hegemonic struggle (Cantini 2017;Hyatt et al 2015;Newfield 2016). Within a wider context of a crisis in legitimate authority (Leitch 2014), all this influences learning in the classroom.…”