Negotiating learning and identity in higher education : access, persistence and retention / / edited by Bongi Bangeni and Rochelle Kapp

• Pubblicazione: London, UK ; ; New York, NY, USA : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , [2017]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 pages)
• Disciplina: 378.1/98
• Soggetto topico: Articulation (Education); College attendance; College student orientation; College students - Psychology
• Persona (resp. second.): BangeniBongi; KappRochelle
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Rochelle Kapp and Bongi Bangeni -- Students' negotiation of learning and identity in working-class schooling -- Rochelle Kapp, Elmi Badenhorst, Bongi Bangeni, Tracy S. Craig, Viki Janse van Rensburg, Kate le Roux, Robert Prince, June Pym and Ermien van Pletzen -- Closing the gap : three mathematics students talk about their transition to and through their undergraduate degrees in the sciences -- Kate le Roux -- "Going nowhere slowly? : a longitudinal perspective on a first-generation woman student's withdrawal from university -- Judy Sacks and Rochelle Kapp -- Humanities' students negotiation of language, literacy and identity -- Rochelle Kapp and Bongi Bangeni -- The role of religion in mediating the transition to higher education -- Bongi Bangeni and June Pym -- A longitudinal account of the factors shaping the degree paths of black students -- Bongi Bangeni -- Enabling capabilities in an engineering extended curriculum programme -- Tracy S. Craig -- The impact of previous experiences and social connectedness on students' transition to higher education -- June Pym and Judy Sacks -- Conclusion : exploring the implications of students' learning journeys for policy and practice -- Bongi Bangeni and Rochelle Kapp.
• Sommario/riassunto: While access to higher education has increased globally, student retention has become a major challenge. This book analyses various aspects of the learning pathways of black students from a range of disciplinary backgrounds at a relatively elite, English-medium, historically white South African university. The students are part of a generation of young black people who have grown up in the new South Africa and are gaining access to higher education in unprecedented numbers. Based on two longitudinal case studies, Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education makes a contribution to the debates about how to facilitate access and graduation of working-class students. The longitudinal perspective enabled the students participating in the research to reflect on their transition to university and the stumbling blocks they encountered in their senior years. The contributors show that the school-to-university transition is not linear or universal. Students had to negotiate multiple transitions at various times and both resist and absorb institutional, disciplinary and home discourses. The book describes and analyses the students' ambivalence as they straddle often conflicting discourses within their disciplines; within the institution; between home and the institution, and as they occupy multiple subject positions that are related to the boundaries of place and time. Each chapter also describes the ways in which the institution supports and/or hinders students' progress, explores the implications of its findings for models of support and addresses the issue of what constitutes meaningful access to institutional and disciplinary discourses
• Titolo autorizzato: Negotiating learning and identity in higher education
• ISBN: 1-350-00022-1; 1-350-00020-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910511680303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II