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Emotional work: students realising, negotiating and overcoming barriers

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Colin Bryson

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Abstract

In this paper we present findings from a three-year, longitudinal, qualitative study of mature learners studying for a health and care Foundation degree in a Higher Education Institution (HEI). As a group at risk of early departure from education (Cameron et al, 2010; Yorke and Longden, 2008; Yorke, 1999) we are particularly interested in their experiences over time and the ways in which they persist despite setbacks and problems. In studying individual accounts we draw broader conclusions about the factors which enable negotiation and confrontation of difficulties, drawing on concepts of engagement and alienation in higher education (Mann, 2001, 2008). Finally we consider how we might create conditions which foster sustained engagement with non-traditional students by influencing and challenging wider institutional cultures and practices.


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Author(s): Wintrup J, James E, Humphris D, Bryson C

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education

Year: 2012

Volume: 4

Issue: 2

Pages: 170-185

ISSN (print): 2050-7003

ISSN (electronic): 1758-1184

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17581181211273156

DOI: 10.1108/17581181211273156

Notes: This is highly topical and of compelling interest at the current time. There are few such deep qualitative studies that inform the debate about student engagement.


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