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Negotiating the university environment : how first year students learn about university processes
This paper is an attempt to make sense of the literature about how new university students develop an understanding of those university processes that are essential to their academic success. Whereas traditionally there has been a tendency to regard students as deficient if they had transition difficulties, such an approach fails to recognise the complexity of the process and the role of the habitus, as explored by Bourdieu (1993), in rendering this task even more difficult for some students. The literature highlights the need for further research. We suggest the need to do so with regard to the complexity of students' experiences and the need to better appreciate the role of emotional or affective influences to that end. We also suggest that Bourdieu's concepts, especially those concerning habitus, would provide a sound foundation for the suggested research.
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Advances in social work and welfare educationVolume
14Issue
1Pagination
55 - 73Publisher
Australian Association for Social Work and Welfare EducationLocation
St Lucia, Qld.ISSN
1329-0584Language
engNotes
Reproduced with the kind permission of the copyright owner.Publication classification
C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
2012, Australian Association for Social Work and Welfare EducationUsage metrics
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