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URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-opus-67378
DOI: 10.25656/01:6737; 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0062
URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-opus-67378
DOI: 10.25656/01:6737; 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0062
Title |
Life history approaches to access and retention of non-traditional students in higher education: A cross-European approach |
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Authors | Field, John; Merrill, Barbara; West, Linden |
Source | European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 3 (2012) 1, S. 77-89 |
Document | full text (257 KB) |
License of the document | In copyright |
Keywords (German) | Erwachsenenbildung; Hochschulbildung; Student; Erwachsener; Hochschulzugang; Abbruch; Lebensgeschichte; Biografische Methode; Integration; Chancengleichheit; Empirische Untersuchung; Deutschland; England; Irland; Polen; Schottland; Spanien; Schweden |
sub-discipline | Adult Education / Further Education Higher Education |
Document type | Article (journal) |
ISSN | 2000-7426; 20007426 |
Language | English |
Year of creation | 2012 |
review status | Peer-Reviewed |
Abstract (English): | Higher education participation has become an important focus for policy debate as well as for scholarly research. Partly this results from ongoing attempts to expand the higher education system in line with wider policies promoting a 'knowledge economy'; and partly it results from widespread policy concerns for equity and inclusion. In both cases, researchers and policymakers alike have tended to focus on access and entry to the system, with much less attention being paid to the distribution of outcomes from the system. This paper reports on a multi-country study that was aimed at critically understanding the experiences of non-traditional students in higher education, and in particular on the factors that helped promote retention. In doing so, the study straddles the sociology of social reproduction and the psychosociology of learner transformations. (DIPF/Orig.) |
other articles of this journal | European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults Jahr: 2012 |
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Date of publication | 31.10.2012 |
Citation | Field, John; Merrill, Barbara; West, Linden: Life history approaches to access and retention of non-traditional students in higher education: A cross-European approach - In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults 3 (2012) 1, S. 77-89 - URN: urn:nbn:de:0111-opus-67378 - DOI: 10.25656/01:6737; 10.3384/rela.2000-7426.rela0062 |