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Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution
Includes abstract.
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2014
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| access_status_str | Open Access |
| author | Ronnie, Linda |
| author2 | Jacklin, Heather |
| author_browse | Jacklin, Heather Ronnie, Linda |
| author_facet | Jacklin, Heather Ronnie, Linda |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| publishDate | 2014 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8223 Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution Ronnie, Linda Jacklin, Heather Education Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 230-245). This study explores the experiences of mature adults returning to study at a higher education institution. The aims of the research focus on the complicated and complex ways in which dispositions of class, embodied in the habitus, shape opportunities, choices and experiences of a group of mature students enrolled at a school of management studies within a higher education institution. The study focuses on the reasons these mature adults returned to study, the strategies they employed to cope with the academic demands and related expectations during their year of study, and the effects and consequences of the higher education experience on their relationships with significant others in their lives. The study foregrounds class and its role in mediating the choices, actions and experiences of mature students through drawing on Bourdieu’s conceptual toolkit of habitus, capital and field. 2014-10-06T12:12:51Z 2014-10-06T12:12:51Z 2008 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8223 eng application/pdf School of Education Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Education Ronnie, Linda Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution |
| title_full | Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution |
| title_fullStr | Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution |
| title_short | Transforming habitus? : experiences of mature students in a higher education institution |
| title_sort | transforming habitus experiences of mature students in a higher education institution |
| topic | Education |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8223 |
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