Life history approaches to access and retention of non-traditional students in higher education: A cross-European approach.

Autor/inn/en	Field, John; Merrill, Barbara; West, Linden
Titel	Life history approaches to access and retention of non-traditional students in higher education: A cross-European approach.
Quelle	In: European journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 3 (2012) 1, S. 77-89Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (3) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2000-7426
DOI	10.25656/01:6737
URN	urn:nbn:de:0111-opus-67378
Schlagwörter	Biografische Methode; Empirische Untersuchung; Chancengleichheit; Lebensgeschichte; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulzugang; Erwachsenenbildung; Abbruch; Integration; Erwachsener; Student; Deutschland; England; Irland; Polen; Schottland; Schweden; Spanien
Abstract	Higher education participation has become an important focus for policy debate as well as for scholarly research. Partly this results from ongoing attempts to expand the higher education system in line with wider policies promoting a 'knowledge economy'; and partly it results from widespread policy concerns for equity and inclusion. In both cases, researchers and policymakers alike have tended to focus on access and entry to the system, with much less attention being paid to the distribution of outcomes from the system. This paper reports on a multi-country study that was aimed at critically understanding the experiences of non-traditional students in higher education, and in particular on the factors that helped promote retention. In doing so, the study straddles the sociology of social reproduction and the psychosociology of learner transformations. (DIPF/Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2013/1