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Luzeckyj, Ann; McCann, Ben; Graham, Charmaine; King, Sharron; McCann, Jacqui – Higher Education Research and Development, 2017
First in Family (FiF) is an under-recognised equity grouping which may encompass low-SES, mature-aged, regional and remote, and Indigenous students. FiF tertiary students are more likely to be in a position of educational disadvantage over students who have other family members available to share the experience of university life and discuss…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Semi Structured Interviews, At Risk Students
Price, Fiona – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2013
This paper examines the way Higher Education (HE) students use metaphors to make tangible the lived and living experience of learning. The article provides a contemporary development of the ethnographic paradigm by offering a new model termed "proximal ethnography" to capture the sense of inside-out-inside research, of being what one has…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Higher Education, Figurative Language, College Students
Meier, Gabriela; Daniels, Harry – Research Papers in Education, 2013
There is a wide consensus that during their year abroad higher education (HE) language students should improve their language skills in contact with native speakers in the host community. Research shows, however, that many students find it difficult, if not impossible, to make meaningful contact to locals, and some consider the lack of it as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Interaction, Friendship, Second Language Learning