"Oh Gawd, How Am I Going to Fit Into This?": Producing (Mature) First-Year Student Identity

Autor/inn/en	Johnson, Greer Cavallaro; Watson, Glenice
Titel	"Oh Gawd, How Am I Going to Fit Into This?": Producing (Mature) First-Year Student Identity
Quelle	In: Language and Education, 18 (2004) 6, S.474-487 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0950-0782
Schlagwörter	School Holding Power; Maturity (Individuals); Discourse Analysis; Teacher Education; College Freshmen; Academic Persistence; Interviews; Educational Strategies; Student Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Reifung; Diskursanalyse; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Studienanfänger; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lehrstrategie; Schülerverhalten
Abstract	This paper aims to improve the understanding of some aspects of campus life faced by a mature student and to help inform institutional strategies for enhancing student retention. The "fit" between students' production of their own identity and their perception of the successful student (both academically and socially) in their institution/programme of choice is considered to be a significant factor in student retention. While the concept of identity can be variously specified, identity as a production, something that is available for use, and embedded in some social activity, is the conceptual approach taken here. This paper demonstrates how identity as a (mature) first-year teacher-education student is produced by interaction in the course of an interview narrative. A microanalytic discourse analysis of the sequential nature of the interview talk is used to display successive instances of the social production of (mature) first-year student identity, displaying movement towards a better "fit" with the institution/programme of choice. (Author).
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