PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Higher Education
Toward Bridging Disciplinary Divides: A Peer-Education Perspective on Enhancing University Belonging
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Human Movement, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
- 2Universita degli Studi di Palermo, Palermo, Italy
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Since sense of belonging at university is conducible to feelings which mean to be recognized as members to a specific group of people sharing common thoughts and values as part of the same environment, it is foundational for practitioners in learning context to exploring how this sentiment can be enhanced for community improvement. In Academia, peer interactions and collaborative settings can also produce positive eTects, contributing to increase interdisciplinary collaboration and alternative intellectual outcomes. In this framework, higher education landscape reveals a great research potential to explore, due to its cooperative system built on people cohabitation; nevertheless, the complexity of this scenario is enriched by the presence of last generations sharing unawares trends for future challenges. Our research design aims to find patterns in university students' sense of belonging among diTerent fields of study, exploring similar or dissimilar attitudes across social networks exploitation. Researchers are promoting an alternative approach for educational environments to enhance sense of belonging in students while attending a peer education at university.
Keywords: higher education, peer education, Social network, sense of belonging, Disciplines
Received: 24 Aug 2025; Accepted: 29 Oct 2025.
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* Correspondence: Marina GALIOTO, marina.galioto@unipa.it
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