"They Have Different Information about What Is Going On": Emotion in the Transition to University

Autor/in	McMillan, Wendy
Titel	"They Have Different Information about What Is Going On": Emotion in the Transition to University
Quelle	In: Higher Education Research and Development, 33 (2014) 6, S.1123-1135 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0729-4360
DOI	10.1080/07294360.2014.911250
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; College Freshmen; Psychological Patterns; Medical Students; Dentistry; Student Experience; Student Attitudes; Anxiety; Access to Education; Information Seeking; Social Class; Cultural Capital; Middle Class; Working Class; Dental Schools; Barriers; Focus Groups; Interviews; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Studienanfänger; Zahnmedizin; Studienerfahrung; Schülerverhalten; Angst; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Informationserschließung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Mittelschicht; Arbeiterklasse; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Most new students experience school to university transition as challenging. Students from backgrounds with little or no experience of higher education are most vulnerable in this transition, and most at risk of academic failure. Emotion appears implicated in the differential way in which first-generation students and students with family familiarity of university experience the transition. This article draws on the voices of first-year dental and oral hygiene students at a South African dental faculty regarding university transition experiences. It draws on the construct of capital and Archer's [(2002). Realism and the problem of agency. "Journal of Critical Realism Alethia," 5(1), 11-20] understanding of "competing concerns" to examine how emotion shapes students' experiences of university transition and how they position themselves with regard to these experiences. The article explicates the ways in which emotional commentary and classed locations intersect, exploring the extent to which this intersection shapes young people's framing of their concerns of "being a student" and "becoming a dentist." The article identifies aspects of the university's material and cultural environments which shape students' emotional responses and which consequently are implicated in the perpetuation of class-based differential life chances. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10