Students’ Experiences in Higher Education
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en
Chapitre d'ouvrage
Ce document a été publié dans
The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions, The International Encyclopedia of Higher Education Systems and Institutions. 2017-07-11p. 1-9
Springer Netherlands
Résumé en anglais
Students’ experiences in higher education (HE) have been largely transformed by the massification process, which sustained the diversification of the student body characteristics, and, as a result, the reasons to study and ...Lire la suite >
Students’ experiences in higher education (HE) have been largely transformed by the massification process, which sustained the diversification of the student body characteristics, and, as a result, the reasons to study and the meaning allocated to studying in HE. The concept of students’ social experience aims less at describing precisely individuals’ lived experience of higher education than to grasp its plurality through the production of a classification or typology. Indeed, over the last half century, higher education systems’ massification process has profoundly changed the student experience. Although massification is not always equitable and democratic, it has led to diversifying and segmenting the students’ world. At the same time, the offer of HE transformed with the multiplication of both higher education institutions (HEIs) and the courses proposed. As a result, the student “demand” and the higher education...< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
integration
professional project
vocation
higher education
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