Key Educational Experiences and Self-Discovery in Higher Education

Autor/in	Yair, Gad
Titel	Key Educational Experiences and Self-Discovery in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 24 (2008) 1, S.92-103 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0742-051X
DOI	10.1016/j.tate.2007.04.002
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Experience; Student Experience; Self Concept; School Culture; College Environment; Student Development; College Students; College Instruction; Qualitative Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungserfahrung; Studienerfahrung; Selbstkonzept; Schulkultur; Schulleben; Hochschulumwelt; Collegestudent; Hochschullehre; Qualitative Forschung
Abstract	This study investigates key educational experiences in higher education. Key experiences are short and intense instructional episodes that students remember to have had a decisive effect on their lives. Data comes from a sample of 3045 key educational experiences, focusing on the 11.6% that relate to higher education. The paper uses a qualitative analysis to describe different features of key experiences in higher education. The results suggest that key experiences involve a process of self-discovery where students find features about themselves they knew nothing of previously. They also help to characterize three main contexts for self-discovery in higher education. First, key experiences take place in academically challenging circumstances that get students to embark on identity adventures. Second, challenging circumstances also provided ripe ground for sage advice that professors provided their students with. These words of wisdom became leitmotifs for students' lives henceforth. Finally, the results indicate the importance of second chance opportunities for self-discovery and identity rehabilitation in higher education. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10