Negotiating Contestations and "Chaotic Conceptions": Engaging "Non-Traditional" Students in Higher Education

Autor/in	Trowler, Vicki
Titel	Negotiating Contestations and "Chaotic Conceptions": Engaging "Non-Traditional" Students in Higher Education
Quelle	In: Higher Education Quarterly, 69 (2015) 3, S.295-310 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-5224
DOI	10.1111/hequ.12071
Schlagwörter	Nontraditional Students; College Students; Learner Engagement; Higher Education; Ideology; Marxian Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Ideologie; Marxism; Marxismus
Abstract	Student engagement has been widely hailed as the solution to all that ails higher education but there is little agreement on the meaning or ambit of the term. Similarly, literature concerning "non-traditional" students is characterised by a multiplicity of meanings and assumptions, seldom spelled out, ascribed to the term, which is nonetheless imbued with analytical and predictive significance. This paper uses data from early stages of the research to illustrate the importance of conceptual clarity in a study of engaging non-traditional students, illuminated through the lens of the Marxian notion of "chaotic conceptions". The paper examines the ideological work being done in disguising interests and inequities through the use of chaotic conceptions and uses the examples of students who define themselves as 'non-traditional' in their own study contexts to illustrate the problems of deploying such chaotic conceptions for purposes beyond description. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01