The long and winding road: experiences of students entering university through transition programs
This article presents outcomes of two studies which focus on the lived experience of transition by students entering higher education in NSW (New South Wales), Australia, from two divergent pathways: Technical and Further Education (TAFE) and a university based enabling program. The studies intersect in two fundamental ways. First, the theoretical foundations (Mezirow's Transformational Learning Theory and Bourdieu's Social Capital Theory) which emphasise the role of habits of mind and the habitus respectively in an individual's life. Second, both studies have identified the primacy of the con... Show more
Authors: Millman, Theresa; McNamara, Jacinta
Published: Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, 2018
Resource type: Article
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https://doi.org/10.5204/ssj.v9i3.465
