Stepping Back to Move Forward? Exploring Outdoor Education Students' Fresher and Graduate Identities and Their Impact on Employment Destinations

Autor/inn/en	Stott, Tim; Zaitseva, Elena; Cui, Vanessa
Titel	Stepping Back to Move Forward? Exploring Outdoor Education Students' Fresher and Graduate Identities and Their Impact on Employment Destinations
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 39 (2014) 5, S.711-733 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2012.743116
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Mixed Methods Research; Longitudinal Studies; Communities of Practice; Employment Potential; Career Choice; Career Planning; College Graduates; Identification (Psychology); Outdoor Education; Higher Education; Questionnaires; Student Surveys; Profiles; Age Differences; Comparative Analysis; Student Experience; Student Attitudes; Employment Experience; Entrepreneurship; Skill Development; College Freshmen; Instructional Effectiveness; Employment Patterns; Correlation; United Kingdom (Liverpool) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Community; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Karriereplanung; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Freiluftunterricht; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fragebogen; Schülerbefragung; Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Studienerfahrung; Schülerverhalten; Occupational experience; Job experience; Work experience; Berufserfahrung; Unternehmungsgeist; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Studienanfänger; Unterrichtserfolg; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Korrelation
Abstract	This four-year mixed method longitudinal study utilises data collected from four cohorts of Outdoor Education (OE) students to compare "fresher" and "graduate" identities and to explore the impact of identity on graduate employment. Findings demonstrate that compared to other programmes, and the university as a whole, OE students had a very distinctive "fresher" profile characterised by active pre-university engagement with the outdoor community of practice, clear vision of their future careers, and how university could contribute to their personal and professional development. Most OE students appear to maintain this strategic approach throughout the three years of their degree, which results, on one hand, in a relatively high employment rate, but on the other hand, in a limited engagement with other developmental opportunities that could enhance their employability if they had chosen a different career route. (As Provided).
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