Non-traditional Students Studying for Education Degrees

NOVOTNÝ, Petr, Karla BRÜCKNEROVÁ, Milada RABUŠICOVÁ, Dana KNOTOVÁ and Libor JUHAŇÁK. Non-traditional Students Studying for Education Degrees. In ECER 2018, 3 – 7 September, Bolzano. 2018.

Basic information

• Original name: Non-traditional Students Studying for Education Degrees
• Authors: NOVOTNÝ, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Karla BRÜCKNEROVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Milada RABUŠICOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Dana KNOTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Libor JUHAŇÁK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: ECER 2018, 3 – 7 September, Bolzano, 2018.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Presentations at conferences
• Field of Study: 50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
• Country of publisher: Italy
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Abstract
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/18:00101158
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: nontraditional students; education degree; higher education
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Non-traditional students belong to promising groups to supply the labour market in the education. Non-traditional students (comp. Schuetze and Slowey, 2002) are – generally speaking – adult students in tertiary education who either have not undergone tertiary education during their initial education, or who have returned to tertiary education after a gap period. According to Schuetze (2014), some of their characteristics are so fundamental that he proposes using the more general term ‘life-long learners’, although the ‘non-traditional students’ category is today firmly rooted in educational discourse, which is the reason why we use the term. We want to add subtler and more nuanced findings based on research into the work and education trajectories of non-traditional students studying for education degree to this rather crude view of adult education based on statistical data of a macrostructural nature. We want to ascertain how paths of learning overlap and intersect with career paths. Current research of these questions in studies into non-traditional students is basically marginal. Moreover, investigations which have been undertaken in the Czech Republic do not specifically look into non-traditional students studying for education degrees, mainly focusing on traditional preparation paths within initial education (e.g. Píšová et al., 2013; Urbánek, 2005).

Links

• GA13-07234S, research and development project: Name: Mezigenerační učení v různých sociálních prostředích

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Intergenerational Learning in Various Social Environments