Keeping Up and Keeping It Together: Tertiary Arts Students Managing Health, Family and Self Esteem

Autor/inn/en	Mitchell, Jennifer; Maher, JaneMaree; Brown, Kate
Titel	Keeping Up and Keeping It Together: Tertiary Arts Students Managing Health, Family and Self Esteem
Quelle	In: Issues in Educational Research, 18 (2008) 1, S.44-59 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0313-7155
Schlagwörter	Undergraduate Students; Social Support Groups; Qualitative Research; Self Esteem; Focus Groups; Foreign Countries; Coping; Stress Variables; Stress Management; Developmental Studies Programs; Art Education; Mental Health; Family Life; Educational Research; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Qualitative Forschung; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Ausland; Bewältigung; Stressmanagement; Stressbewältigung; Developmental studies; Developmental psychology; Study; Studies; Entwicklungspsychologie; Studium; Arts; Education; Art in Education; Kunst; Bildung; Erziehung; Psychohygiene; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Australien
Abstract	Being a student in an Australian university involves more pressure, and makes more demands on that student and his or her support networks than ever before. The variety in the configurations of pressures, demands and responsibilities faced by students means that it is impossible to characterise a "standard" student. Qualitative research undertaken to explore the situations of sixty undergraduate students in eleven focus groups at Monash University, has revealed that while the pressures are increasing, students generally approach their studies equipped with a good awareness of the difficulties they are likely to face. This awareness--along with a better capacity to manage pressure--increases as students' study programs advance. There is an increasing demand for students to engage in paid work to meet the costs of study; to participate in family life and maintain social support networks, and to care for their own health and well-being. These pressures can often present challenges for the University administration, and at times conflict with requirements on teaching staff. The changing and varied social and education realities of students need to be better incorporated into institutional arrangements. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. 5/202 Coode Street, Como, Western Australia 6152, Australia. e-mail: editor@iier.org.au; Web site: http://www.waier.org.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10