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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bangeni, Bongi, editor.

Kapp, Rochelle, editor.

Series:

Understanding student experiences of higher education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Articulation (Education).

College attendance.

College student orientation.

College students--Psychology.

College students.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 pages).

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, [2017]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350000223

1350000221

9781350000209

1350000205

OCLC:

995849572