Students make a plan: understanding student agency in constraining conditions
Students make a plan: understanding student agency in constraining conditions
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学生制定计划：了解受限条件下的学生能动性
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2009
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Cheryl Brown
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L. Czerniewicz;K. Williams;Cheryl Brown
借鉴阿切尔的观点，机构/结构的关系，本文解释的情况下，学生在各种各样的，具有挑战性的情况下找到谈判困难的条件。报告介绍了2007年在南非三个省的三所完全不同的大学进行的一项调查研究，研究涉及获取和使用方面的相互关联的问题。我们的研究结果是，在校园访问一般是有利的，和校外访问是有问题的和不均衡的。有一群学生使用他们的手机访问互联网，并使用他们的手机用于学术目的，这是真实的社会经济群体（SEG）。特别引人注目的是，来自低SEG的学生这样做。调查结果显示，学生准备作出的选择和他们找到的策略，以从事在线或访问互联网，以支持他们的研究。阿彻对代理和结构的细致入微的方法帮助我们开始理解学生们表现出一种更复杂和细致入微的方式来参与不同类型的技术的可用性，以及以意想不到的方式使用无处不在的技术并为他们可能没有打算的目的做出深思熟虑的决定。她的反身性概念提供了一种描述这些选择是如何与结构条件相关的方式，并使我们能够解释学生是如何表现出创造性能力以规避结构所施加的限制的“人”。保留字：学生;阿彻;代理;高等教育;访问;使用;信通技术;信息和通信技术;南非;手机DOI：10.1080/09687760903033058
Drawing on Archer’s perspectives on the agency/structure relationship, this paper explains situations where students in varied, challenging circumstances find ways to negotiate difficult conditions. It reports on a 2007 study undertaken through a survey at three quite different universities in three South African provinces, addressing inter-related questions on access and use. Our findings are that on-campus access is generally reported favourably, and off-campus access is problematic and uneven. There is a cluster of students using their cell phones to access the Internet, and using their cell phones for academic purposes, and this is true across socio-economic groups (SEGs). It is especially striking that students from low SEGs do so. The findings show the choices students are prepared to make and the strategies which they find in order to engage online or access the Internet to support their studies. Archer’s nuanced approach to agency and structure helps us begin to make sense of the way that students exhibit a more complex and nuanced way of engaging with the availability of different kinds of technologies, as well as making considered decisions about using ubiquitous technologies in unexpected ways and for purposes for which they may not have been intended. Her concept of reflexivity provides a way of describing how those choices are made in relation to structural conditions and enables us to explain how students are ‘persons’ showing an inventive capacity to circumvent the constraints imposed by structures. Keywords: students; Archer; agency; higher education; access; use; ICTs; information and communication technologies; South Africa; cell phones DOI: 10.1080/09687760903033058