The two faces of political science studies. Junior and senior students' thoughts about their education and their future profession.

Autor/inn/en	Johansson, Kristina; Hård af Segerstad, Helene; Hult, Håkan; Dahlgren, Madeleine Abrandt; Dahlgren, Lars Owe
Titel	The two faces of political science studies. Junior and senior students' thoughts about their education and their future profession.
Quelle	In: Higher education, 55 (2008) 6, S. 623-636Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0018-1560; 1573-174X
DOI	10.1007/s10734-007-9079-z
Schlagwörter	Prüfungsordnung; Lehre; Studium; Politikwissenschaft; Hochschule; Student; Ausland; Schweden
Abstract	The article reports on an empirical small scaled interview study among junior and senior students in the political science programme in a Swedish University. The aim is to describe how students at various stages of their studies conceive of their education as well as their future professional life. Questions about their identity as students have also been posed. The results indicate that a programme with a major emphasis on political science appears to have two different faces as experienced by the students. The first half of the programme is experienced as traditional liberal arts studies, i.e., the students enrol in a "personal bildung project" and conceive of political scientists as a kind of watchdog for democracy. Students in the latter part of their studies report an emerging identity as investigators and civil servants and an appreciation of the parts of the studies that enhance their generic skills. (HRK / Abstract übernommen).
Erfasst von	Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, Bonn
Update	2008/4