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Adult Learners in a Research University: Negotiating Undergraduate Student Identity
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This paper explored the coconstruction of adult undergraduate student identities through positional and relational adult student identities and found that these identities are multi-layered, multi-sourced, evolving, and at times, paradoxical in beliefs of self, posit...Abstract:
Adult undergraduate student identities at research extensive universities were uniquely coconstructed, shaped by this selective and competitive youth-oriented cultural context. Drawing upon social constructivist theory, this study explored this coconstruction through positional and relational adult student identities. Positional identities were coconstructed through negotiating academic acceptance in meeting demanding academic challenges and through facing otherness as a mature adult. These adults also viewed their positional identity based in an evolving sense of agency to academically succeed through goal oriented efforts, as well as through their adult maturity and life experiences. These adults articulated relational identities predominantly based in faculty’s tacit or explicit academic acceptance of them in one of four types of relationships. This study suggests that the adult undergraduate student identity is multi-layered, multi-sourced, evolving, and at times, paradoxical in beliefs of self, posit...read more
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Student identity development in higher education: implications for graduate attributes and work-readiness
Jeannie Daniels,Jennifer Brooker +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors advocate a return to consideration of student identity and suggest that, for students, building an awareness of their student identity as they progress through their higher education experience is not only important for student engagement at university, but is also an integral aspect of shaping their work-readiness as graduates.
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Teaching nontraditional adult students: adult learning theories in practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the learning experiences of adult students enrolled in a disciplinary course that was built upon core principles of adult learning and found that students progressed through a five-themed model that challenged their pre-existing meaning structures, caused emotional and cognitive disequilibrium, and pushed them toward irrevocable change.
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Transitions and turning points: exploring how first-in-family female students story their transition to university and student identity formation
TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative research project followed one group of female undergraduate students as they moved through the first year of study, focusing on the conceptual lens of "turning points".
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Time, Money, Leisure and Guilt--The Gendered Challenges of Higher Education for Mature-Age Students.
Cathy Stone,Sarah O'Shea +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the impact of university study on two cohorts of mature-age students at a regional university in Australia and explored the influence of gender on their experiences of managing home, family and work responsibilities in combination with their responsibilities as students.
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Nontraditional Adult Learners: The Neglected Diversity in Postsecondary Education
TL;DR: In the discourse on diversity in colleges and universities in the United States, an often-neglected population is nontraditional adult learners as discussed by the authors, and this invisible aspect of understudied adults is explored.
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