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What's in their baggage? The cultural and social capital of Australian students preparing to study abroad
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Green, W and Gannaway, D and Sheppard, K and Jamarani, M, What's in their baggage? The cultural and social capital of Australian students preparing to study abroad, Higher Education Research & Development, 34, (3) pp. 513-526. ISSN 0729-4360 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1080/07294360.2014.973381
Abstract
Governments and educational institutions promote study abroad in the belief that it offers valuable learning experiences for all students. Yet studies suggest that equitable access to study abroad is more myth than reality. This study took a narrative approach supported by survey data to explore this issue at one Australian university. The survey indicated that the majority of students are effectively excluded from the university's Student Exchange Programme, and that those included generally have high cultural, social and economic capital. Interviews revealed how multiple dimensions of privilege typically work to make study abroad imaginable, affordable and do-able for some. These findings are complicated by one student's atypical narrative, which serves to raise further questions for research
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | narrative analysis, student experience, cultural capital, Bourdieu, equity; social capital, study abroad |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Other education |
Research Field: | Other education not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
Objective Field: | Teaching and curriculum not elsewhere classified |
UTAS Author: | Green, W (Dr Wendy Green) |
ID Code: | 107145 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 18 |
Deposited By: | Curriculum and Academic Development |
Deposited On: | 2016-03-07 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-20 |
Downloads: | 0 |
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