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2025-09-05
Study and Review Materials form re-open for the academic year, based in different office - Melissa Meloui
Kit MuseKitMuse@eponaauthor.social
2024-02-15

I am still almost happy crying over the feedback I got on my most recent discussion paper. Like this small town Iowa person is really holding their own in a Religious Studies masters program.

After being told I was a failure with big dreams who'd never get very far (so get a real job and quit whining) for 40+ years of my life, this is freaking amazing!

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD #scholar #firstgenerationstudents

Higher Education R & D JournalHERDjournal@aus.social
2023-09-01

Conceptualising prospective first-generation entrants’ higher education decision-making as an ‘ecology of intersecting influences’ and an ‘elastic plane’

Louise Gazeley & Tamsin Hinton-Smith

🔓 → doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.

#HigherEd #AccesstoUniversity #StudentDiversity #FirstGenerationStudents #WideningParticipation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Figure 1. An ecology of intersecting influences as an elastic plan.
Mark RubinMarkRubin@fediscience.org
2023-01-04

Fitting in at University:

Longitudinal study (N = 829) finds first-generation university students conceal their social background more than continuing-generation students in order to fit in at university, but their identity concealment results in poorer well-being.

Veldman et al. (2022): doi.org/10.1177/13684302221089

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Although higher edcation has become more accessible to people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, the transition to university is more difficult for first- compared to continuing-generation students. Previous research showed that social identity processes ate key to understand diffecences between fist- and continuing-generation students’ expetiences at univessity. In the present paper, we asgue that Social background identity concealment may occus 25 a coping process among first-generation students. A longitudinal study among 829 first-year university students showed that fist-generation students indeed concealed theis social background at university more than continuing-generation studeats. This was especially the case when they had expecienced concerns about their social belonging at university, indicating that identity concealment resulted from concerns to itin atunivessity. Finally, social background concealment was selated to a decrease in well-being, suggesting that concealment i a costly social identity ‘management strategy. Instead, universities should put in efforts to increase first-generation studets’ sense vt

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