Learning to Become Graduate Students: Japanese Women's Experience in the Research Unit in Engineering

Autor/in	Hosaka, Masako
Titel	Learning to Become Graduate Students: Japanese Women's Experience in the Research Unit in Engineering
Quelle	In: European Journal of Engineering Education, 35 (2010) 6, S.619-626 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0304-3797
Schlagwörter	Engineering Education; Graduate Students; Graduate Study; Research and Instruction Units; Females; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Student Attitudes; Socialization; Role; Academic Achievement; Individual Differences; Masters Programs; Japan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ingenieurausbildung; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Forschung und Lehre; Sonderforschungsbereich; Weibliches Geschlecht; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Schülerverhalten; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Rollen; Schulleistung; Individueller Unterschied; Magister course; Magisterstudiengang
Abstract	Based on the analysis of 16 interviews with women first-year master's students at two national engineering schools in Japan, this article examines the socialisation role of compulsory undergraduate research experience in Japanese women's decisions to pursue graduate education and choices of the programme. The findings suggest that research experiences in a small independent research unit within the major department convinced Japanese women engineering students of their academic and social success as graduate students in the current environment. Although participants generally adapted themselves to the research unit through their research, there is a variation in the degree to which they were smoothly integrated into the research unit, reflecting organisational and individual differences. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10