Managing the expectations: reality mismatch through aspirations, access and achievement: engineering a first year undergraduate student's habitus
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Paper/Presentation Title | Managing the expectations: reality mismatch through aspirations, access and achievement: engineering a first year undergraduate student's habitus |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Janse van Rensburg, Barnard (Author), Danaher, Patrick Alan (Author) and van Rensburg, Henriette (Author) |
Editors | Thomas, Jason |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 13th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2010) |
Number of Pages | 10 |
Year | 2010 |
Place of Publication | Brisbane, Australia |
ISBN | 9781741072822 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://unistars.org/past_papers/papers10/index.html |
Conference/Event | 13th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2010) |
Event Details | 13th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2010) Parent Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE) Event Date 27 to end of 30 Jun 2010 Event Location Adelaide, Australia |
Abstract | Despite some criticisms, Bourdieu’s (1977) notion of the habitus remains a powerful conceptual tool for analysing how individuals perceive and engage with different worlds. It certainly constitutes a generative explanatory framework for examining how first year undergraduate students navigate their ways through the often competing pressures of university study, paid work and home life. In particular, the habitus is helpful to students and university personnel alike in managing the common mismatch between the expectations and reality of the first |
Keywords | first year undergraduate student; expectations; Bourdieu; aspirations; access; achievement; engineering |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 520102. Educational psychology |
529999. Other psychology not elsewhere classified | |
390303. Higher education | |
Public Notes | File reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher/author. |
Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Engineering and Surveying |
Faculty of Education |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0021/managing-the-expectations-reality-mismatch-through-aspirations-access-and-achievement-engineering-a-first-year-undergraduate-student-s-habitus
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