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Young, Pat; Glogowska, Margaret; Lockyer, Lesley – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2007
Recent synthesizing work on the student retention literature suggests two divergent discourses. The first is a discourse of assimilation which locates the problem in individual students' circumstances or abilities. This is challenged by an emerging discourse of adaptation. The new discourse focuses on higher education itself, proposing fundamental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Holding Power, Higher Education, Interviews