Academic Fatalism: Applying Durkheim's Fatalistic Suicide Typology to Student Drop-Out and the Climate of Higher Education

Autor/in	Godor, Brian P.
Titel	Academic Fatalism: Applying Durkheim's Fatalistic Suicide Typology to Student Drop-Out and the Climate of Higher Education
Quelle	In: Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 48 (2017) 3, S.257-269 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Godor, Brian P.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0826-4805
DOI	10.1007/s10780-016-9292-8
Schlagwörter	Educational Theories; Social Theories; Dropouts; Dropout Research; Academic Persistence; Higher Education; Suicide; Classification; Decision Making; Social Influences; Social Capital; Nontraditional Students; Educational Research; Self Control + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Gesellschaftstheorie; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Selbstmord; Classification system; Klassifikation; Klassifikationssystem; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Sozialer Einfluss; Sozialkapital; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Selbstbeherrschung
Abstract	Student drop-out remains a critical issue facing educational professionals. For higher education, the vast research in the past 40 years has been influenced by the work of Tinto and his model of student persistence. In this model are several elements that have proven to sharpen the focus of student drop-out research such as the concept of integration. The philosophical foundation for these concepts stems from Durkheim's work on suicide. Specifically, Tinto's employs Durkheim's "egotistical" suicide type as an analogy for student departure while attributing students' departure as a decision to separate themselves from the academic community. However; assigning causation of student departure to students' decisions stands in stark contrast to the theoretical underpinnings of Durkheim's work. Durkheim believed that certain social tendencies cause suicides. If student drop-out is to be typified by a certain Durkheimian suicide "type," then specific social facts must exist in those societies. In this article, student departure in higher education will be examined using Durkheim's theory of suicide complemented with Bourdieu's theory of symbolic violence. Egotistical suicide will then be re-examined as an analogy for student departure and the Durkheimian suicide "fatalistic" will be presented as suitable analogy for student departure. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01