"They have different information about what is going on": Emotion in the transition to university

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dc.contributor.authorMcMillan, Wendy
dc.date2015-11-06
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-06T15:06:59Z
dc.date.available2014-11-06T15:06:59Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractMost new students experience school to university transition as challenging. Students from backgrounds with little or no experience of higher education are most vulnerable in this transition, and most at risk of academic failure. Emotion appears implicated in the differential way in which first-generation students and students with family familiarity of university experience the transition. This article draws on the voices of first-year dental and oral hygiene students at a South African dental faculty regarding university transition experiences. It draws on the construct of capital and Archer’s(2002) understanding of ‘competing concerns’ to examine how emotion shapes students’ experiences of university transition and how they position themselves with regard to these experiences. The article explicates the ways in which emotional commentary and classed locations intersect, exploring the extent to which this intersection shapes young people’s framing of their concerns of ‘being a student’ and ‘becoming a dentist’. The article identifies aspects of the university’s material and cultural environments which shape students’ emotional responses and which consequently are implicated in the perpetuation of class-based differential life chances.en_US
dc.description.accreditationInternational Bibliography of Social Sciencesen_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the University of the Western Cape Senate Research Committee funding (13/7/17)en_US
dc.identifier.citationMcMillan, W. (2014). ‘They have different information about what is going on’: Emotion in the transition to university, Higher Education Research and Development. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2014.911250en_US
dc.identifier.issn1469-8366
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/1299
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterfalse
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.rightsPublisher policy: Author post-print version may be accessible in an institutional repository after 18 months.en_US
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectFirst year studentsen_US
dc.subjectHigher education
dc.subjectProfessional education
dc.subjectStudent diversity
dc.subjectStudent experience
dc.title"They have different information about what is going on": Emotion in the transition to universityen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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