‘It's a struggle’: the construction of the ‘new student’ in higher education
‘It's a struggle’: the construction of the ‘new student’ in higher education
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“这是一场奋斗”：高等教育“新学生”建设
DOI：
10.1080/0268093032000145863
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Paul G. J. O'Connell
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作者：
Carole Leathwood;Paul G. J. O'Connell
本文探讨了英国政府扩大高等教育参与政策背景下“新”大学生的构建。新工党话语强调扩大参与对个人和社会的好处，尽管提高传统上未进入大学的群体的学生的参与水平伴随着“简化”和降低标准的话语。本文借鉴了对 1992 年后英国一所市中心大学本科生正在进行的纵向研究，以考察学生在“新”高等教育学生的公共话语背景下对其经历和身份的建构。这项研究的许多参与者将被视为“非传统”学生，即那些是扩大参与政策举措的重点的学生。正如雷伊等人。 （2002）发现，对于许多在高等教育中学习的“非传统”学生来说，其特点是“斗争”，这也是本研究的一个重要主题。本文探讨了这些新的学生身份如何回应新工党扩大参与的梦想，同时继续反映和重建阶级身份和其他身份和不平等。
This paper explores constructions of the ‘new’ university student in the context of UK government policy to widen participation in higher education. New Labour discourse stresses the benefits of widening participation for both individuals and society, although increasing the levels of participation of students from groups who have not traditionally entered university has been accompanied by a discourse of ‘dumbing down’ and lowering standards. The paper draws on an ongoing longitudinal study of undergraduate students in a post–1992 inner‐city university in the UK to examine students' constructions of their experiences and identities in the context of public discourses of the ‘new’ higher education student. Many of the participants in this study would be regarded as ‘non‐traditional’ students, i.e. those students who are the focus of widening participation policy initiatives. As Reay et al. (2002) discovered, for many ‘non‐traditional’ students studying in higher education is characterized by ‘struggle’, something that also emerged as an important theme in this research. The paper examines the ways in which these new student identities both echo the New Labour dream of widening participation and yet continue to reflect and re‐construct classed and other identities and inequalities.