Viva Solidarity!: Framing Repertoire of Emerging Social Movements against Institutional Change in Two Turkish Universities

Framing Theory for Higher Education Research

“…On a macro-level, framing has been applied to policy research for analyzing how the concept of 'autonomy' was shaped by a European university association (Nokkala & Bacevic, 2014) and the framing strategy in EU higher education policy (Serrano-Velarde, 2015). It has been used also on studying student movements such as the framing of antiwar social movements (Hedley & Clark, 2007); media framing of student protests in Turkey (Demirci, 2013) and the framing tactics of student movements against institutional changes in Turkish universities (G ünes ¸tepe & Tunçalp, 2016). Media framing of student movements is one of the earliest applications of framing in the study of higher education, as shown in Gitlin's (1980) research on media trivialization of the student movement in 1960s.…”