Detailed Information on Publication Record
2020
Identity Struggles of Adult Returners
ROZVADSKÁ, KatarínaBasic information
Original name
Identity Struggles of Adult Returners
Authors
ROZVADSKÁ, Katarína (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Studia paedagogica, Masarykova univerzita, 2020, 1803-7437
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50301 Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Country of publisher
Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
References:
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14210/20:00114689
Organization unit
Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English
adult returners; drop-out; higher education; narratives; identity struggles; adult learner identities
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 30/4/2021 07:50, Mgr. Igor Hlaváč
Abstract
V originále
This article addresses a perceived gap in higher education literature: there is very little writing that successfully combines the issues of individual learners who dropped out and then returned to higher education – the adult returners. To address this problem, the article draws upon data from the qualitative part of a larger research project that deals with non-traditional students in the Czech Republic. This article analyzes data from eight subjects with drop-out experience chosen from the initial corpus of thirty non-traditional students. The results indicate that adult learners have to deal with three central identities and with potential identity struggles as they interact: student identity, work identity, and familial identity. The final result of the interaction between these identities can be either the integration or the disintegration of identities, whereby one of the possible consequences of identity disintegration is to drop out from higher education.
Links
| GA18-15451S, research and development project |
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