Resourcefulness matters: Student patterns for coping with structural and academic challenges

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dc.article.end-page93en_ZA
dc.article.start-page76en_ZA
dc.contributor.authorDison, L.
dc.contributor.authorShalem, Y.
dc.contributor.authorTaylor, D.
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-02T13:30:10Z
dc.date.available2021-09-02T13:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThere is general agreement that there are many structural constraints beyond students’ control which influence the degree of success that students can attain as they learn to participate in academic practice. Less understood are the patterns of students’ experiences of the socio-economic environment of their schooling and university, their views of the enabling and constraining conditions of learning and their perceptions of their agency in overcoming these conditions. The data for our study were collected through a questionnaire survey of 591 Bachelor of Education students across three years of the degree at a South African University. Several patterns of resourcefulness and levels of articulation emerged which reveal complex sets of experiences and strategies as students reflect on adversities and challenges they encountered at school and at university. We argue for an in depth understanding of the nature of student agency which recognises its role in shaping their engagement with material, social, academic and affective challenges.en_ZA
dc.description.librarianMM2021en_ZA
dc.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationDison, L., Y. Shalem, and D. Langsford. 2019. “Resourcefulness Matters: Student Patterns for Coping With Structural and Academic Challenges”. South African Journal of Higher Education 33 (4), 76-93.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issneISSN: 1753-5913
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/31551
dc.journal.issue4en_ZA
dc.journal.linkhttps://doi.org/10.20853/33-4-2831en_ZA
dc.journal.titleSouth African Journal of Higher Educationen_ZA
dc.journal.volume33en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisheren_ZA
dc.rightsCopyright © 2021 South African Journal of Higher Educationen_ZA
dc.schoolWits School of Educationen_ZA
dc.subjectresourcefulnessen_ZA
dc.subjectagencyen_ZA
dc.subjectstructural constraintsen_ZA
dc.subjectstudent successen_ZA
dc.subjectalienationen_ZA
dc.subjectengagementen_ZA
dc.titleResourcefulness matters: Student patterns for coping with structural and academic challengesen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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