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The unheard voices of nontraditional students in Higher Education: Learning to become a student.
| Title: | The unheard voices of nontraditional students in Higher Education: Learning to become a student. |
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| Name(s): |
Julio Maturana, Marcelo, Author Cintron Delgado, Rosa, Committee Chair Boote, David, Committee Member Owens, J. Thomas, Committee Member Guzman-Valenzuela, Carolina, Committee Member Rivera, Fernando, Committee Member University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Date Issued: | 2018 | |
| Publisher: | University of Central Florida | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Abstract/Description: | This study explores the lived experiences of older students who work and have family responsibilities while attending an undergraduate program full-time. Research indicates that this segment of the student population is the only one that is growing today and is projected to grow in the future; this also is the largest the group of students thatdoes not finish their studies in spite of the many services aimed at supporting students' academic success.This study critically investigated the category of the nontraditional student and reviewed the literature about students' college experiences, including the limitations of its theoretical assumptions to describe and explain the nature of the college journey of olderstudents with substantive life experiences. From the notion that learning is lifelong and holistic (Jarvis, 2006), this study combined a student-centered approach with a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology to respond to the following research questions: What is the lifeworld of undergraduate nontraditional students with significantlife experience as they encounter college life? What resources sustain the college experience of undergraduate nontraditional students of and allow navigating the space of college life? What are the changes undergraduate nontraditional students live, the meaning they construct while encountering, and navigating college life?Themes that resulted from the analysis included the participants' experiences as essentially different from that of traditional students. These nontraditional college students bring skills and knowledge that they deploy on behalf of their specific academic goals. The pace of their lives is fundamentally different from the traditional universitystudent's sense of time; they are self-sufficient, making decisions and navigate obstacles.Their new identity as students is re-negotiated with the identities they live outside of campus and they establish ad hoc relationships with members of the universitycommunity. | |
| Identifier: | CFE0007201 (IID), ucf:52255 (fedora) | |
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2018-08-01 Ph.D. Education and Human Performance, Dean's Office EDUC Doctoral This record was generated from author submitted information. |
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| Subject(s): | nontraditional students -- older students assets -- adult learning -- university transformation -- hermeneutical analysis -- interpretive phenomenology -- van Manen -- lived experiences -- single mother success in higher education -- student services -- new students in higher education -- adult retention | |
| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0007201 | |
| Restrictions on Access: | public 2018-08-15 | |
| Host Institution: | UCF |
