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Ramdeny, Gianeeshwaree S. "Life transition of becoming a university student." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2010. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/365.
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The transition to university is a common, but varied experience shared by all students. Although, it is a largely positive life transition, many students experience major difficulties in making this transition. New university students often have to move away from home, establish new friendships and cope with academic work. In addition, they tend to drop out of university during their first year of study due to the manifest difficulties they cannot overcome. However, some students are able to cope better than others and make this transition without difficulty. Students who experience those stressors but manage to overcome them are considered to be resilient. It is thus important to examine the factors which help those students to overcome those challenges and persist through their first year.
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Abdulkadir, Idil. "Somali Stories in Ivory Towers: Narratives of Becoming a University Student." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/41507.
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This study employed narrative methods to explore how two Somali-Canadian women formed and understood their identities as first-generation university students. In conceptualizing identity, the study draws on sociological literature that frames identities as a collection of social roles that are performed. Within this framework, university student is a cultural object related to specific kinds of capital. The data are presented in narrative form, based in life history and life story approaches. Within their narratives, participants recounted the ways in which their attempts at developing a university student identity were complicated by their identities as Black, Muslim, economically marginalized individuals from refugee backgrounds. The tension at the heart of each participants’ narrative was not how to perform the university student role, but the cost of that performance on other parts of their identity. These findings reveal the narrow definition university student within the Canadian imagination and its consequence for the lives of marginalized communities.
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Graham, Margaret. "Being available, becoming student kind : a nurse educator's reflexive narrative." Thesis, University of Bedfordshire, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10547/576352.
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This thesis is a story of how I came to construct and illuminate a reflexive narrative as a journey of self-inquiry and transformation towards personal realisation. It shares a view of reflection as lived in being and becoming a reflective nurse educator in higher education. My narrative draws upon, autoethnography, critical social theory and hermeneutic perspectives. Johns (2010) six dialogical movements have been used to give structure to my narrative. Nineteen reflections generate the reflexive narrative in a hermeneutic spiral, as each text informs the other along the journey. Insights become clearer through guidance, dialogue, and engagement with the literature. Early reflections show anxiety, emotional distress and entanglement as I tried to solve student problems. Maternalism influenced my approach to being with distressed and struggling students. Gradually these feelings give way to being available, becoming student kind as an enabling relationship with students. Becoming student kind is framed through my adaptation of the Being Available Template (Johns 2013). It is realised through; listening, presence, caring, empathy, compassion and emotional intelligence. Poise, a self-management practice ensures that personal concerns and tensions do not hinder my relationships with students. Mindfulness expressed as spirituality sustains this process. This path to becoming student kind creates a learning space for student growth and development. In so doing, students are enabled to enter into a nurse patient relationship through being available. I express my empowerment through a dialogical voice, transforming my practice with individual students, in the classroom and beyond. Understanding the tensions within the complexity of university culture influencing nurse education, informs collaboration with colleagues towards a shared vision of nurse education. I turn to reflect on a journey of constructing a reflexive narrative. Five stepping stones for dialogue in advancing guided reflection as a foundation for nurse education are offered. My inquiry weaves a story of reflection as testimony to a fusion of practice and theory. I reveal practice wisdom, informing my day to day work in being available becoming student kind in relationships with students. I explore the contribution to knowledge, my practice and future research, considering the strengths and challenges therein.
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Seton, Steven S. "Teacher cognition the effects of prior experience on becoming a teacher /." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1864.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, 2007.Title from title screen (viewed 16th July, 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.
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McDougall, Mary Catherine, and m. c. mcdougall@cqu edu au. "First steps in becoming a teacher: Initial teacher education students perceptions of why they want to teach." Central Queensland University. School of Education, 2004. http://library-resources.cqu.edu.au./thesis/adt-QCQU/public/adt-QCQU20050531.142515.
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This thesis focuses on why prospective teachers want to teach. It argues that prospective teachers draw on their own perceptions of what teaching means to them and that these perceptions are clarified and refined during the initial stages of their university study. Firstly, it examines what attracts and holds first year student teachers to teaching and whether they really want to be teachers. Secondly, it compares students perceptions of teaching at the start, during and at the end of their first year of their first year of university studies. Finally, it identifies the kind of early experiences at university and school sites that can either strengthen the initial commitment to become a teacher or might lessen the original desire to teach.
The context of the study is a regional university in a provincial city in Central Queensland. The selection of constructivism as a theoretical framework informed the research approach and allowed data to be gathered in a case study format using an iterative process to permit probing and identification of change, and reconstruction of relevant issues. In this research, data was collected through three individual interviews with nine first year prospective student teachers at the beginning, mid and end of that year. Constructivist analysis concepts were employed to draw from the data coded patterns, themes and issues displaying student teachers emerging perceptions of their first year of learning how to teach.
The thesis reports that student teachers in their initial year were enabled to articulate their co-construction of what it means to be a teacher. During the year they were able to build up their construction of what it means to be a teacher which, over time, alleviated earlier uncertainties as their decision to teach was affirmed. The process of construction of being a teacher identified qualities, knowledge and skills identified from the start to the end of the program, building from perceptions to reality, from the old to the new.
Conceptions of teaching as work, and the importance of relationships in teaching contributed to the satisfaction of student teachers and helped affirm their commitment in anticipating their future as a teacher. The findings of the study exemplify that a well-structured, collaborative teacher education program in the initial year will attract and retain many prospective teachers. This thesis gives a wider understanding of the first year of a teaching career.
The research builds a contemporary picture of what prospective teachers think about teaching in their first year of a teacher education program. The issues and problems identified in the context of a regional campus, underpin the results of this research. This research enables students voices to be heard and will inform teacher educators and others involved in teacher education to examine specific cases in the attraction and retention of prospective teachers.
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Hoffman, Sophie. "Becoming a Composer: How postgraduate conservatorium students develop their musical identities." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15991.
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Musical identities research demonstrates the many roles that music plays in our everyday lives. For musicians, music is more than just a tool for self-discovery; it is a way of life, built over years of support, participation and love. The musical identities of performers have been explored in detail while composers’ identities have been explored predominantly through their compositions. The aim of this study is to investigate how composers establish and develop compositional identity. Five postgraduate composition students at The Sydney Conservatorium of Music participated in semi-structured interviews about their musical backgrounds, experiences and interests. Five main themes emerged as central to composer identity formation: ‘The Power of Music’, ‘Motivation to Compose’, ‘Influential Relationships’, ‘Environmental Factors’ and ‘Compositional Community’. Music was essential to the composers’ self-concepts. They were compelled to compose. They were determined to prove their worth through their music. And, they recognised the influence of their communities on their musical choices. These composers shared an understanding of the creation and continual development of their compositional identities through an alignment of these elements.
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Bentley-Williams, Robyn. "EXPLORING BIOGRAPHIES: THE EDUCATIONAL JOURNEY TOWARDS BECOMING INCLUSIVE EDUCATORS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES." University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1855.
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Doctor of PhilosophyThe current study explored the formative processes of twelve student teachers constructing role understandings in the context of their experiences and interactions with people with disabilities. In particular, it examined the participants’ changing notions of self-as-teacher and their unfolding perceptions of an inclusive educator’s role in teaching children with disabilities. The research aimed to investigate personal and professional forms of knowledge linked with the prior subjective life experiences of the student teachers and those arising from their interactions in situated learning experiences in community settings. The contextual framework of the study focused on the development of the student teachers’ unique understandings and awareness of people with disabilities through processes of biographical situated learning. The investigation examined participants’ voluntary out-ofcourse experiences with people with disabilities across three community settings for the ways in which these experiences facilitated the participants’ emerging role understandings. These settings included respite experiences in families’ homes of young children with disabilities receiving early intervention, an after-school recreational program for primary and secondary aged children and adolescents with disabilities, and an independent living centre providing post-school options and activities for adults with disabilities. ii Two groups participated in the current study, each consisted of six student teachers in the Bachelor of Education Course at the Bathurst campus of Charles Sturt University. Group One participants were in the second year compulsory inclusive education subject and Group Two participants were in the third year elective early intervention subject. The investigation examines the nature of reflexive and reflective processes of the student teachers from subjective, conflict realities in an attempt to link community experiences with real-life issues affecting inclusive educational practices. The voluntary community experiences engaged the research participants in multi-faceted interactions with people with disabilities, providing thought-provoking contexts for their reflections on observations, responses and reactions to situations, such as critical incidents. The participants engaged in reflexive and reflective processes in records made in learning journals and in semi-structured interviews conducted throughout the investigation. Results were analysed from a constructivist research paradigm to investigate their emerging role understandings. Prior to this study there had been few practical components in the compulsory undergraduate inclusive education subject which meant that previously student teachers gained theoretical knowledge without the opportunity to apply their learning. Many student teachers had expressed their feelings of anxiety and uneasiness about what they should do and say to a person with a disability. Thus, the community experiences were selected in order to give a specific context for student teachers’ learning and to provide participants with expanded opportunities to consider their professional identity, social awareness and acceptance of people with disabilities. iii An analysis of the data demonstrated the centrality of reflection within a situated teaching and learning framework. Understandings of prior experiences and motivation were shown to interact with the outcomes of the community experiences through an on-going process of reflection and reflexivity. This reconstructing process encouraged learners to reflect on past, present and projected future experiences and reframe actions from multiple perspectives as a way of exploring alternatives within broader contexts. The data reveal the participants’ engagement in the community experiences facilitated their awareness of wider socio-cultural educational issues, while focusing their attention on more appropriate inclusive teaching and learning strategies. The reflective inquiry process of identifying diverse issues led participants to consider other possible alternatives to current community practices for better ways to support their changing perspectives on ideal inclusive classroom practices. The dialogic nature of participants’ on-going deliberations contributed to the construction of their deeper understandings of an inclusive educator’s role. The findings of the study identified external environmental and internal personal factors as contributing biographical influences which shaped the student teachers’ emerging role understandings. The results emphasised the value of contextual influences in promoting desirable personal and professional qualities in student teachers. Importantly, situated learning enhanced participants’ unique interpretations of their prospective roles. As a result of analysing their insights from interactions in community contexts, the student teachers had increased their personal and professional understandings of individuals with disabilities and broadened their perceptions of their roles as inclusive educators. Thus, the study found that encouraging a biographical reflexive and reflective orientation in participants was conducive iv to facilitating changes in their understandings. Overall, the outcomes had benefits for student teachers and teacher educators in finding innovative ways for integrating biographical perspectives into situated teaching and learning approaches. The study showed that contextual influences facilitated deeper understanding of role identity and produced new ideas about the nature of reflexivity and reflection in guiding student teachers’ learning. (Note: Appendices not included in digital version of thesis)
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Xu, Jinqi. "Becoming a Chinese student: a practice-based study of Chinese students' learning in an Australian university." Thesis, School of Management, Operations and Marketing, 2016. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/4808.
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A growing concern in studies of internationalisation relates to Chinese students studying in the West. In business studies, Chinese students are the largest cohort of international undergraduates. Areas of concern include differences in learning styles, language and socio-cultural barriers. Institutionally, learning is considered to occur when students can demonstrate the learning outcomes achieved and learning is assured against learning criteria. However, research has shown the limitation of this view or what Hagar et al (Hager, Lee & Reich, 2012) term the dominant paradigm of learning and that learning occurs in many forms (Boud, 2006; Stone, Boud & Hager, 2011). There is an absence of discussion about how learning actually occurs, or the practices that Chinese students use in order to learn. Drawing on Hager and Hodkinson's (2011) use of becoming as a metaphor for learning, this thesis aims to examine the experience and practices of Chinese business students studying in an Australian university. The principle research question focuses on the contribution that a practice-based study makes to investigations of undergraduate Chinese business student learning in an Australian university. Drawing on a practice theoretical framework influenced by the Chinese philosophical concept of Yinyang, and a practice methodology, the research is an in-depth investigation of the everyday practices used by five Chinese business undergraduate students to support their learning. The study uses interpretative methods including interviews, observations, reflexive groups, document analyses, collections of artefacts and field notes. The findings demonstrate how students put things together in different ways that are inseparable from their becoming. Study practices, such as memorising and translating are used by students together with socio-cultural practices. Study and socio-cultural practices are entangled in multiple relationships usefully described using Yinyang concepts (Wang, 2012). The findings highlight how student learning occurs, or becomes, as they adapt and adopt what they see as appropriate study and sociocultural practices in different contexts. A practice-based approach, with the inclusion of the notion of Yinyang, can help explain the tensions and contradictions of students’ performance as learners and the process of becoming that makes up their learning journey. Many institutional and historical tensions and contradictions shape students’ learning practices. I conclude that Chinese students’ learning is characterised by complexity and that the possibility and impossibility of Chinese students’ learning is inseparable from particular practices, settings and arrangements. The implications for students and teachers are that learning cannot be pinpointed in a static snapshot but is better understood as a constant process of becoming and that institutions and teachers need to be able to deal with complexity when supporting students by developing appropriate curricula and structures.
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Smallwood, Zenobia Whichard. "One Rural Elementary School's Experience in Becoming A School of Distinction." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11058.
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The purpose of this qualitative study was to describe overarching themes that were significant in helping a selected elementary school reach the standards for School of Distinction status. A descriptive case study design was used to identify answers to the overall guiding research question and subordinate questions formulated from the review of literature. A carefully planned sequence of questions was developed for each set of participants aimed at getting a detailed description of the school. Data collection procedures consisted of interviews, classroom observations, and review of school documents. Participants consisted of the principal, nine teachers and nine students from grades, 3, 4, 5 and a total of three parents who have children in these grades.
Data from this study were used to compare and analyze key words, phrases, and/or direct quotes in order to identify and describe emerging, overarching, and supporting themes from the following domains: principal's leadership, teacher involvement, class size, student achievement, and parental involvement. Based on literature reviews, these domains were considered to be characteristics that contributed to promoting high student achievement and successful schools.
Findings provided supporting themes that were organized around the study's domains. The supporting themes emerged from data triangulation on each of the domains. Based on the data collected and analyzed, the following nine conclusions were identified as contributing to the school's success: (1) a successful school staff maintains an instructional focus; (2) in a successful school, communication occurs among all stakeholders; (3) collaboration among teachers, parents, and the principal occur often in schools; (4) a successful school has a class size below twenty students; (5) a variety of complimentary programs led to school success; (6) a successful school has strong parental involvement; (7) a successful school has a nurturing staff; (8) a successful school has a stable staff; and (9) students perceive a successful school differently than the adults.
Implications and recommendations for practice are provided for consideration for school districts with similar demographics to this study. Finally, recommendations for further studies are provided.Ed. D.
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Tankersley, Christopher James. "Becoming an Orientation Leader: A Catalyst for Self-Authorship Development." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1365413596.
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Evans, Christopher David. "Becoming a student, being a student, achieving as a student : motivation, study strategies, personal development and academic achievement at two UK universities." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.550215.
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Concerns have been expressed about the level of undergraduate engagement in purposive study activities. This research explores the nature and stability of students' university motivations, their relationship to study practices and how these are both related to university achievement Motivation is primarily explored in terms of the higher-level reasons why students undertake university study. A mixed methods approach is taken. A series of questionnaires were administered over two academic years to students at two UK post-1992 universities. Eight hundred and eighty-seven students, mostly studying psychology, completed at least one questionnaire. These covered a number of individual differences, student expectations, motivation, university experience and adaptation, study practices, and competence perceptions. The questionnaires were supplemented by 30 semi-structured interviews conducted at one of the universities.
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Grudnoff, Alexandra Barbara. "Becoming a Teacher: An Investigation of the Transition from Student Teacher to Teacher." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2647.
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This thesis seeks to gain greater knowledge of the process of transition and development that beginning primary teachers undergo over their first year of teaching. The research focus is on investigating and understanding this process from the standpoint of the beginning teacher. Of particular interest is an examination of how the teacher preparation programme, contextual features of the school, and participants' own beliefs and biographies influence and impact on their transition to teaching and their professional and identity development as first year teachers. This longitudinal study takes an interpretive approach to investigate the first year teaching experiences of 12 beginning teachers in 11 primary schools. The qualitative methodology used in this thesis shares characteristics with a case study approach and utilizes procedures associated with grounded theory. Data were gathered systematically over a year by way of 48 semi-structured, individual interviews, two focus group interviews, and 48 questionnaires, supplemented by field notes. The collected data were analyzed, coded, and categorized, and explanations and theory that emerged from this process were grounded in the data. The findings of this study have three broad sets of implications for the education and induction of beginning teachers. Firstly, they question the role that practicum plays in the transition from student to teacher. The findings suggest that the practicum component of teacher preparation programmes should be re-conceptualized and redesigned to provide authentic opportunities for student teachers to be exposed to the full range of work demands and complexity that they will encounter as beginning teachers. Secondly, becoming a successful teacher appears to depend on the quality of the school's professional and social relationships, particularly in terms of the frequency and type of formal and informal interactions that ii beginning teachers have with colleagues. While the major source of satisfaction and self-esteem came from seeing the children whom they taught achieving socially and academically, the beginning teachers also had a strong need for affiliation, which was enabled through positive, structured interactions and relationships with colleagues. The study also indicates that employment status influences the way that the beginning teachers view their work and themselves as teachers, with those in relieving positions displaying greater variability in terms of emotional reactions and a sense of professional confidence than those employed in permanent positions. The third set of implications relate to beginning teacher induction. The study points to variability in the quality of induction experiences and challenges policy makers and principals to ensure that all beginning teachers are provided with sound and systematic advice and guidance programmes which are necessary for their learning and development. While the study confirms the critical role played by tutor teachers in beginning teacher induction, it suggests that the focus is on emotional and practical support rather than on educative mentoring to enhance new teachers' thinking and practice. This thesis provides a comprehensive and nuanced view of how beginning to teach is experienced and interpreted. It paints a complex picture of the relationship between biography, beliefs, preparation, and context in the process of learning to teach. The study contributes to the literature on the education of beginning teachers. It highlights the need for developing a shared understanding amongst policy makers, teacher educators, and schools regarding the multiplicity and complexity of factors that influence the transition and development of beginning teachers.
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Barclay, Aileen. "On becoming educators of the cross a faithful Christian response to pupil disaffection /." Thesis, Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=26028.
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Bell, Helen. "Becoming a successful student in pre-registration nurse education : a qualitative multiple case study." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/49481/.
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Student success in pre-registration nurse education is becoming increasingly important in order to reduce student attrition and meet workforce needs in the United Kingdom (UK). Extensive quantitative research exists on student attrition and the predictive power of factors such as entry qualifications, age and gender, however there are few studies that have explored students’ accounts of their own success. The aim of this study was to identify and explain the significance of factors that enable high-achieving student nurses to become successful on their programme and to develop a model of student success in pre-registration nurse education. Traditionally, success has been defined as programme completion however this study has considered success in terms of high academic achievement i.e. those students attaining the highest average academic marks in the 2nd year of a pre-registration nursing programme. A qualitative multiple case study was designed involving three cases of high-achieving students located in two UK universities. Transcripts from in-depth interviews with 37 third-year student nurses (adult field) and 23 lecturers were analysed using thematic analysis. Key educational documents were analysed to explore contextual factors influencing the learning environment. Adult learning and social learning theories were used as a theoretical framework for this study. High-achieving nursing students identified that the most significant factors contributing to their success were: being highly motivated to become a good nurse, being actively engaged in learning and having effective support systems. High-achieving students have the attributes of adult learners: they are self-directed, independent and actively engaged in learning. Lecturers identified motivation and attitudes to learning as important factors in success but also considered high entry qualifications to be significant although this was not supported by the data in this study. Adult learning attributes contribute positively to success but experiences in the learning environment also influence student achievement. A model of student success in pre-registration nurse education has been developed that can be utilised by students, education providers and clinical mentors to understand and promote student success.
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Sexton, Steven S. "Teacher Coginition: The effects of prior experience on becoming a teacher." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1864.
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Teachers are unique when compared to most other professionals, as pre-service teachers spend more than a decade observing teachers in practice before entering their own professional training. This study investigated teacher candidates at the earliest point of their teacher training, entry into a teacher certification program, at the University of Sydney and University of Auckland in 2005. Specifically, this study sought to address how prior experiences informed the teacher role identity of male primary, female secondary and non-traditional student teachers. These three teacher candidate groups emerged from a previous study (Sexton, 2002) which explored post-graduate teacher candidates’ beliefs with the most vivid and articulate prior experiences. The study used a mixed-model research design to explore the research question, How do pre-service teacher candidates interpret prior teacher experiences as to the type of teacher they do and do not want to become? 354 entry-level teacher candidates were surveyed using both closed item and open-ended responses. From these participants, 35 were then interviewed before their course commencement and then again after their first teaching practicum. The study showed that there were differences as to how prior teachers informed the teacher role identity of entry-level student teachers. Male primary candidates were more influenced by their positive primary experiences of role model teachers. Female secondary participants remembered those secondary teachers who encouraged the development of critical thinking and they now wish to emulate this in their practice. Non-traditional student teachers remembered a wider range of educational experiences and entered into their teaching program to make a difference in both their and their students’ lives. The study highlights how in-service teachers play an important role in not only who will become teachers but also what subjects and school level future teachers will teach.
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Sexton, Steven S. "Teacher Coginition: The effects of prior experience on becoming a teacher." University of Sydney, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1864.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Teachers are unique when compared to most other professionals, as pre-service teachers spend more than a decade observing teachers in practice before entering their own professional training. This study investigated teacher candidates at the earliest point of their teacher training, entry into a teacher certification program, at the University of Sydney and University of Auckland in 2005. Specifically, this study sought to address how prior experiences informed the teacher role identity of male primary, female secondary and non-traditional student teachers. These three teacher candidate groups emerged from a previous study (Sexton, 2002) which explored post-graduate teacher candidates’ beliefs with the most vivid and articulate prior experiences. The study used a mixed-model research design to explore the research question, How do pre-service teacher candidates interpret prior teacher experiences as to the type of teacher they do and do not want to become? 354 entry-level teacher candidates were surveyed using both closed item and open-ended responses. From these participants, 35 were then interviewed before their course commencement and then again after their first teaching practicum. The study showed that there were differences as to how prior teachers informed the teacher role identity of entry-level student teachers. Male primary candidates were more influenced by their positive primary experiences of role model teachers. Female secondary participants remembered those secondary teachers who encouraged the development of critical thinking and they now wish to emulate this in their practice. Non-traditional student teachers remembered a wider range of educational experiences and entered into their teaching program to make a difference in both their and their students’ lives. The study highlights how in-service teachers play an important role in not only who will become teachers but also what subjects and school level future teachers will teach.
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Depinet, Andrea E. "Becoming Critical Thinkers: The Impact of Treatments on Student Reflective Practice in the College Classroom." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1351524009.
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Thomas, Romeshia C. "BECOMING A STUDENT AFFAIRS ADMINISTRATOR: A STUDY OF ANTICIPATORY SOCIALIZATION AND THE DECISION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS TO ENTER THE STUDENT AFFAIRS PROFESSION." OpenSIUC, 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1020.
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The current and growing shortage of student affairs administrators is a growing concern among colleges and universities within the United States, and raising awareness and recruitment within the profession are recognized national priorities (NASPA, 2012). The growth and sustainability of the student affairs profession is largely dependent on the ability to recruit the next generation of administrators. However, there is not a clear understanding of the experiences that influence student affairs administrators' decision to choose student affairs as a career. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences (personal, professional, social) that influenced African American student affairs administrators at public, four-year, predominantly White institutions decision to pursue student affairs as a career. Further, this study investigates the association between these experiences and anticipatory socialization. The concept of early professional socialization or anticipatory socialization is the first step that takes place in the socialization process and occurs prior to entry into an organization. I argue that African American student affairs administrators are imperative to the student affairs profession because they play an instrumental role in the development of African American college students, as well diversifying the field of student affairs as a whole. This diversity enhances the educational experience for both minority and majority students. Therefore, it is imperative that student affairs administrators continue to encourage and recruit more African Americans to the field, by building a pipeline of future student affairs professionals. This qualitative study examines the previous experiences and backgrounds of African American student affairs administrators. Focusing on professionals working at four-year, predominantly White institutions (PWIs), this study seeks to learn about the personal, professional, and social experiences that led participating staff members to pursue work in the area of student affairs. The central focus of this study is to examine and understand how African American student affairs administrators come to choose their profession, and ways in which current African American student affairs administrators may recruit and encourage students to enter into the student affairs profession. Socialization is the process by which an individual learn the necessary attitudes, skills, and behaviors in order to fulfill professional roles organization (Merton, 1957; Tierney, 1997; Van Maanen & Schein, 1979). Socialization theory frames this study and provides a framework for analyzing my research problem in light of understanding how minority student affairs professionals may apply the socialization process in order to recruit and influence African American students to pursue careers in the student affairs profession. I hope that the significance of my findings will assist current African American student affairs administrators in gaining a better understanding of how these experiences impact the decision of African Americans to pursue careers in student affairs, so that they can better recruit more African American students into the field.
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Ross, E. Wayne. "Becoming a social studies teacher : an investigation of the development of teaching perspectives among preservice social studies teachers /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392303350.
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Brin, Elizabeth Jane. "Becoming and being : international graduate student experience and identity formation in the context of multiculturalism and internationalization." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/42464.
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International graduate students are perceived as enhancing the prestige of institutions of higher education but are often silenced through structural mechanisms that render their particular needs, perspectives and contributions irrelevant. My research critically examines the dominant institutional discourses by which this group of students negotiate their lived experiences. It specifically looks at how such discourses shape the students’ own perspectives of their sense of belonging and their identities. Though literature on international graduate student experience has grown dramatically in recent years, qualitative research on the lived experiences of these students remains limited. Furthermore, the majority of both quantitative and qualitative literature focuses on the student’s problems “adapting” and “succeeding” in their new culture. Based on interviews with ten self-identified international students, as well as on my own experience, I argue that there is an institutionalized silencing of notions of difference that often cultivates a concerning lack of belonging. My hope is that this research will provide a new way of looking at international graduate student experiences, emphasizing their strength and agency as opposed to the normative and limited deficit-approach that is currently dominant.
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Mitchell, Theresa. "Becoming a nurse : a hermeneutic study of the experiences of student nurses on a Project 2000 course." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311451.
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Cook, Cheryl 1959. "The process of becoming : a case study of exploration of the transition from student teacher to ESL teacher." Thesis, McGill University, 2003. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=79834.
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This inquiry is a phenomenological exploration of the development of two student teachers undergoing their practicum experience in my secondary classroom. It examines the changes in identity that the student teachers underwent and how those changes came about. The goals motivating this inquiry were (1) to understand the process through which the transition from student teacher to teacher occurred, and (2) to understand what influence the people surrounding the student teachers, such as the cooperating teacher and the supervisor, had on the process. The analysis closely follows Wenger's (1998) work in Communities of Practice and Schon's (1983, 1987) work in Reflective Practice. The data consists of audio-taped de-briefing sessions attended by the student teachers and the cooperating teacher, the cooperating teacher's Reflective Log, and a student teacher's journal. The inquiry supports the idea that the practicum experience in and of itself is important in the dramatic change in identity that student teachers experience. Also important is the "close accompaniment" of student teachers by the cooperating teacher in order to enact the reflective dialogue by which student teachers learn to become teachers.
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FALCAO, EDMAR DA SILVA. "MY TEACHER - HE IS A MIRROR TO ME: THE PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OF A STUDENT BECOMING A TEACHER." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2005. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=7226@1.
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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIORO objetivo do presente trabalho é investigar o processo de construção da identidade profissional de um aluno tornando-se professor de inglês como língua estrangeira, no contexto de um curso livre em Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro. Acompanho o desenvolvimento deste aluno desde que ele revelou o desejo de tornar-se professor até sua inserção no grupo de professores do curso, passando pela sua escolha em fazer o Curso de Treinamento de Professores (TTC) da instituição e, mais tarde, seu ingresso no Curso de Letras. À luz dos princípios da Prática Exploratória (Allwright, 2000; Moraes Bezerra, 2003), caracterizo esta pesquisa como um estudo de caso longitudinal (Lüdke e André, 2001). Analiso informações obtidas na aula de inglês avançado do curso, na qual o aluno de 24 anos manifestou o desejo de ser professor, e na série de 8 entrevistas conduzidas ao longo de um ano e meio, visando refletir sobre sua decisões e seu processo de formação profissional. Alinho-me teoricamente com o conceito de identidade como construto social (Moita Lopes, 2002; Dutra, 2003; Kleiman, 2003). Ainda, utilizo o conceito de aprendizado dentro da perspectiva sócio-construcionista (Vygotsky, 1994; Bakhtin,1981 e 1992; Mercer, 1994; Edwards e Mercer, 1994), considerando o discurso em sua dimensão social (Cook, 2000). Problematizo questões pertinentes ao processo de construção identitária do professor, ressaltando sua crença inicial nos conceitos de modelo e inspiração e sua reflexão crítica sobre a importância do Curso de Letras na formação profissional do professor de inglês.
The purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the professional identity construction of a student becoming a teacher in the context of a private language school in Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro. I study the development of this student from the moment he showed an interest in becoming a teacher until he joined the teaching staff of the same school, passing through his choice of studying at the institution`s Teachers Training Course and, later on, his entrance in a university Letters course. I characterize this research as a longitudinal case study (Lüdke e André, 2001), inspired by the principles of Exploratory Practice (Allwright, 2000; Moraes Bezerra, 2003). I analyze data from an advanced English class, in which the 24-year-old student expressed his interest in becoming a teacher; and data from 8 interviews, conducted during one year and a half, with the purpose of reflecting about his professional decisions and growth. In theoretical terms, I view identity as socially constructed (Moita Lopes, 2002; Dutra, 2003; Kleiman, 2003). I align myself with the socio-construcionist perspective on learning (Vygotsky, 1994; Bakhtin, 1981 e 1992; Mercer, 1994; Edwards e Mercer, 1994) and also consider discourse in its social dimension (Cook, 2000). I problematize identity construction issues in the process of the specific learner becoming a teacher. I highlight his initial belief in the concept of model and inspiration and his critical reflection about the importance of the university Letters course in teacher professional development.
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Sturge, Sparkes E. Carolyn. "Being and becoming an 'I want to learn person' : participating in an arts-oriented learning environment : perception and context." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=85207.
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The push for educational reform in the province of Quebec, Canada has brought to the foreground many ideas about what needs to be done to improve the learning experience of students. While there has been some movement in the primary grade levels, change in the secondary level is still in its infancy. There are some teachers, however, in high schools who have been on the cutting edge of educational reform. The purpose of this study is to look at participation within a secondary classroom where the philosophy of the reform is being acted upon. The study, qualitative in design, is a type of ethnographic investigation of a teacher and students in a Grade VII language arts classroom. The classroom is a part of an exclusive program, namely the Alternative Learning Program, nested in a public high school in the Montreal area.Using various means of data collection such as field notes and interviews, the researcher examines the various dimensions of participation as it unfolds in this particular classroom. The researcher identifies these dimensions as assigned and shared participation. The data suggests that dynamics beyond assigned and shared participation are also evident. The dynamics, identified as participative tone, contribute to student views of the uniqueness of this particular learning environment. To present a trustworthy description of what is observed, however, the investigator shows situations in which participation is not apparent. These situations are identified as participative resistance. The researcher deduces that participation and participative resistance need to be viewed as context-bound and are, in many respects, points on a continuum.
Attempts have been made in the research to allow the study participants to express their views. Through interviews, students share in their own words what participation means to them. Their words add depth to understanding of what student participation is. The study suggests that notions of the child-centered or student-centered classroom, while commendable, are not necessarily an aspiration to strive for.
The study affirms that the teacher plays a key position in the classroom environment. The study begins by showing the various roles that the teacher assumes in her daily practice. Views of the teacher are presented along with perceptions of the students and the researcher to determine the various roles played out in this site. The study concludes that the teacher conducts her practice by exceeding the boundaries of her roles so identified.
The study shows that the classroom does not stand in isolation, but is subject to various influences from the school, as well as the community at large. The researcher identifies these influences as context and conditions using another site as a point of reference. The secondary sight brings clarity to what the researcher observes. The researcher concludes that in addition to communal influences, learning in the primary site takes place under the banner of what is defined as an arts-oriented curriculum. The arts-oriented curriculum contributes to the sense of community in the classroom. But data also suggest that the classroom does not always function as a community. In spite of the teacher's good intentions, tensions sometimes foster a competitive rather than collaborative spirit among the students.
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Castro, Julie Anne. "Becoming a Teacher Educator: A Self-Study of Learning and Discovery as a Mentor Teacher." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2472.pdf.
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Parker, April C. Strutchens Marilyn E. "An exploratory study of the possible alignment between the beliefs and teaching practices of secondary mathematics pre-service teachers and their cooperating teachers and Its effects on the pre-service teachers' growth towards becoming reform based mathematics teachers." Auburn, Ala., 2007. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2007%20Fall%20Dissertations/Parker_April_30.pdf.
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Hendry, Helen Claire. "Becoming a teacher of early reading : an activity systems analysis of the journey from student to newly qualified teacher." Thesis, University of Leicester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2381/38285.
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Education policy in England requires student teachers to demonstrate effective teaching of early reading, including systematic synthetic phonics, in order to qualify. However, central monitoring of student teacher satisfaction in initial teacher education (ITE) indicates that some students feel inadequately prepared to teach reading as they enter the profession. Furthermore, recent policy changes to ITE on postgraduate routes have increased time in schools and reduced time in the university. In this challenging climate, little is known about how student teachers develop knowledge, understanding and practice for teaching early reading whilst moving between the different learning environments of schools and university and how they adapt to the first term as newly qualified teachers (NQTs). This research used a longitudinal, collective case study design involving seven lower primary (3–7 years) postgraduate certificate in education (PGCE) students enrolled at one university in the East Midlands of England. Semi-structured interviews, classroom observations and documentary analysis with the students and their teacher mentors were used to gather data from entry onto the course to the participants’ first term as qualified teachers. A conceptual and analytical framework, developed using activity theory, provided an original and innovative way of examining the complex interplay of influential factors within and between schools and the university. Conceptualising ITE as the product of multiple activity systems identified important tensions between the goals and expectations of schools and the university and the potentially unexamined impact of institutional responses to policy on becoming a teacher of early reading. The findings indicate that student teacher progress was constrained or facilitated by key elements of the activity systems involved which highlight implications for university organisation, mentoring and whole school participation. Recommendations from the research include a new continuum of teacher development and an ideal activity system for ITE and induction for early reading.
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Walsh, Jean 1975. "The student-teacher dialogue : an autobiographical discussion of choice, possibility and the teaching-self in the process of becoming." Thesis, McGill University, 2000. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=31147.
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This thesis is an investigation of the relationship between education, freedom and the teaching self. Adopting the paradigm of qualitative research, it integrates an autobiographical perspective in which, drawing on the author's experience and perceptions of the shortcomings of traditional teaching attitudes and practices, the thesis aims to explore concepts and approaches which identify possible educational alternatives. The writings of educational philosopher, Maxine Greene, provide the theoretical framework for this study. Based on central themes identified in her work, a theoretical analysis of the principal concepts of freedom, community, imagination, narrative and identity is provided.
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Povey, Hilary Ann. "Ways of knowing of student and beginning mathematics teachers and their relevance to becoming a teacher working for change." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1995. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6573/.
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I begin the thesis with an action research account of an intervention with respect to gender on a mathematics Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course at a northern university in 1989-90. Two years after the intervention, I visited in their schools three of the students (now teachers) who had been involved and I interviewed each of them there, with a view to finding out what impact, if any, this intervention had had on their beliefs, understandings, commitments and practice. In the light of this experience, I sought out three teachers who had followed the course and who I had heard were working for change. I conducted several interviews with each of them. I constructed a model of the ways of knowing of (new) teachers of mathematics and linked one epistemology, that based on the authority of self and reason, to an emancipatory curriculum and to critical mathematics education. I have considered, briefly, the implications for initial teacher education. The research was conducted and this thesis is written as a praxis-orientated inquiry and both have been influenced by feminism, critical theory and postmodern tendencies. In this sense, the thesis itself is a research experiment.
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Jawitz, Jeffrey Paul. "Becoming an academic : a study of learning to judge student performance in three disciplines at a South African university." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11132.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-214).This study seeks to understand how new academics learn to judge student performance in complex assessment tasks, i.e. tasks that allow students substantial initiative and latitude in their response. It was conducted at a research intensive historically white university in South Africa and involved case studies in three academic departments. Thirty one academics were interviewed across the three departments. The analysis of these cases was conducted in two parts, using a framework developed from Bourdieu's theory of practice and Lave and Wenger's situated learning theory. In the first part, I analysed the academic workplace in each case and identified three different configurations of communities of practice that formed key dimensions of the fields within which these departments were situated. In the second part, I applied the concepts of habitus and legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) to understand how new academics engaged with the communities of practice in their departments and learnt how to judge student performance of complex assessment tasks. The study revealed limitations in the explanatory power of social learning theory in contexts where the stability of communities of practice was uncertain, where there were no opportunities for LPP and where knowledge was deemed to reside in the individual rather than to be distributed in the community. In contrast to the view that learning in the workplace is informal and unstructured, in each of the case studies it was possible to identify a learning to judge trajectory, which, in some cases more than others, provided a structured "learning curriculum" (Wenger, 1998) for new academic staff. Learning to judge student performance happened through participation in a series of assessment practices along this trajectory. The experience of following a learning to judge trajectory was closely associated with the identity trajectory of each individual academic and depended on three factors: the particular configuration of communities of practice within each field, the capital valued within this configuration, and the nature of the capital that the newcomer brings into the department. However, the existence of these trajectories did not mean that learning was unproblematic, as they appeared to support the dominant relationships of power within each field and posed particular challenges for those individuals who embarked on alternative trajectories.
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Porteous, Debbie. "From uncertainty to belief and beyond : a phenomenological study exploring the first year experience of becoming a student nurse." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2015. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/23586/.
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As part of a high quality nursing student experience within Higher Education there is a need to access the voice of the student. By listening to the students, greater clarity and understanding from the students' perspective is proposed. The focus of this research is within the first year of an undergraduate nursing programme. This thesis gives insight into the experiences and perceptions of undergraduate nursing students' transition into Higher Education and professional transformation, within the first year of a three year proframme. In addition, the research sought to illuminate the participants' personal learning journeys and experiences. There is a dearth of literature addressing various aspects of the first year student experience and minimal literature which represents the student voice. The first year experience is a complex and multifaceted area of study. This complexity is related to the Higher Education organisational processes that are required to enable the student to succeed and the amount of personal investment by each student who enters programmes of learning within a university setting. It has been identified that the first year is the most critical to ensuring that students engage with programmes of learning and achieve both academically and professionally (Trotter and Roberts 2006). To develop insight into the learner's journey a theoretical framework is constructed from within an interpretive paradigm. Hermeneutic phenomenology was selected as a suitable methodology for this research, informed by the work of Max van Manen (1990). The use of hermeneutic phenomenology enable the exploration of participants' experiences. The participants in this research were representative of a typical nursing cohort's profile and, therefore, provided the ideal means of investigating the student nurse experience within the first year. Ten student nurses volunteered to participate in this research and data was collected over a period of one year by use of repeated semi-structured interviews and collection of critical incidents using digital voice recorders. Data was analysed using phenomenological and hermeneutic strategies involving in-depth, iterative reading and interpretation to identify themes in the data. Findings from this research identify that the students have developed skills to survive but there was considerable variation in the student experience which impacted on their motivaton and behaviour. A key finding was the ability of students to develop their own skills of coping to deal with the demands of academic life and those of the practice settings. The skills of self-reliance and self efficacy are evident in the findings and are explored in relation to professional transformation.
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Summers, Denise. "Becoming a teacher in the post-compulsory sector : student teachers' perceptions of influences on the development of their professional identities." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425502.
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Lilley, Kathleen. "Exploring what Being and Becoming a Global Citizen Means in Contemporary Universities: International Industry Key Informant and Mobility Student Perspectives." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366500.
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The nature of contemporary society is characterised by global complexity, change and ongoing challenges. Flexible and adaptive local and global employees of the future need to be equipped with a global mindset and disposition that extends beyond competencies and vocational skills. Educating global citizens is a popular aim of contemporary universities, yet there is little organisational evidence showing how the concept translates to practice. The overarching question explored in the research program was What does being and becoming a ‘global citizen’ mean in contemporary universities from concept to practice? Two studies gathered in-depth information from international industry key informants and international mobility students through semi-structured interviews. The integrated findings extend our understanding of the philosophical and theoretical foundations of the global citizen, as well as providing a clearer understanding of the role and responsibility of the university. The studies were designed to capture multiple perspectives to build an explanation of the global citizen and reveal new knowledge that could inform the internationalisation of the curriculum (IoC). Study One examined key informant perspectives of the conceptual and practical aspects of the global citizen, and the university role in and responsibility for translating the aim of educating global citizens into practice. Study Two explored Australian and European mobility students’ experiences, focusing specifically on their stories of change, personal growth and development, as well as their mindset for thinking during the change process. The integrated analysis of findings provides considerable insight into what being and becoming a global citizen means in contemporary universities.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Public Health
Griffith Health
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Tapp, Jane. "Being and becoming a student : an investigation into how a pedagogic approach built on collaborative participation in academic literacy practices supports students' academic practice, knowlege and identity." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2013. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13007/.
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Set in the context of a Post-92 university college Education Studies department, this thesis investigates how new undergraduates might be supported in the transition to Higher Education. It describes an intervention informed by research into Academic Literacies that was undertaken in a first year, first semester module. The intervention aimed to scaffold participation in academic practice, and in particular academic literacy practice, in collaborative workshops within the context of the module content. The methodological approach combines action research with aspects of ethnography to produce ‘ethnographic action research’. Drawing on the work of Lave & Wenger, students working in groups are conceptualised as academic student communities of practice, and audio recordings of students engaged in collaborative activities provide evidence of their lived experience of the module in three domains: what they do; what they know; and how they position themselves in relation to academic practice. The findings show how talk about practice, within the context of participation in practice, is instrumental to change in all three domains: the negotiation of distinctly ‘academic’ ways of working in groups; the construction of meaning in the relationship between what is known about academic practice and what is done; and, the construction of the self as academic. I conclude that Higher Education pedagogical arrangements need to build communities that talk about practice and consider how such an approach responds to future challenges.
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Hetrick, Laura Jean. "EXPLORING THREE PEDAGOGICAL FANTASIES OF BECOMING-TEACHER: A LACANIAN AND DELEUZO-GUATTARIAN APPROACH TO UNFOLDING THE IDENTITY (RE)FORMATION OF ART STUDENT TEACHERS." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1268252289.
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Smith-Thompson, A. "Exploring student becoming within TVET policy discourses at a community college in the Caribbean : a heuristic for understanding the politics of difference." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2018. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3023413/.
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Seed, Ann. "Becoming a registered nurse - the student's perspective : a longitudinal qualitative analysis of the emergent views of a cohort of student nurses during their three year training for general registration." Thesis, Leeds Beckett University, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293884.
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Hall, Angela. "Becoming a caring mental health nurse : a phenomenological study of student mental health nurses narratives, of developing caring during their pre-registration nursing education." Thesis, Durham University, 2019. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12936/.
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This research is located within the current debate surrounding a 'crisis in care' within the nursing profession. Caring has been considered at the foundation of nursing practice since the days of Florence Nightingale. However the contemporary healthcare environment with increasing nursing workloads and a focus on productivity measures is creating real barriers for nurses who wish to be caring. Nurse education is at the centre of this debate regarding its location within Higher Education and the move to an all graduate profession across all fields of nursing. The aim of this study was to acquire a deeper understanding of how their development of caring was experienced within the pre-registration nursing mental health programme. A total of 9 second year student mental health (MH) nurses volunteered to participate in the study from a Higher Education Institution in the United Kingdom. The interviews were analysed using an Interpretive Phenomenological Approach and this uncovered 3 super-ordinate themes. Participant's identified with caring as an innate characteristic that is central to their 'being', and this acted as a key motivator towards becoming a Mental Health Nurse. Several effective pedagogies were identified in the study that enhance and enrich the participant's innate caring qualities during their educational programme. The value of mental health practice placements and the role of reflection in their learning whilst acknowledged is also a source of dissonance as they encounter the reality of caring within mental health services. The findings would indicate that caring within new student (MH) nurses' is an innate human quality that requires awakening and validating rather than instilling by the appropriate nursing pedagogies grounded in the ethics of caring. The role of nurse educators is clearly to produce competent (MH) nurses who can remain 'caring human beings', whilst responding effectively to the social, economic and cultural transformations and contemporary nursing demands. Introducing and embedding approaches that develop resilience and increase emotional intelligence are essential to protect their professional ideals.
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Yang, Chun-Ting. "Student Ethnic Identity and Language Behaviors in the Chinese Heritage Language Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1462865990.
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Weatherwax, Amanda Luke. "Becoming Teacher: How Teacher Subjects Are Made and Remade in Little Turtle High School's Teacher Academy." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1271103334.
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Llewellyn, Anna Elizabeth. "Troubling the mathematical child : an analysis of the production of the mathematical classroom and the mathematical child within the becoming of primary school student-teachers in England." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/10937/.
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In this thesis, I answer the question how is the mathematical child produced within the becoming of primary school student-teachers in England, and how does this include and exclude people within the mathematics classroom. This question arises out of the problematic discourses that student-teachers are exposed to when embarking on their journey to become a teacher. In particular, I focus on discourses that arise from the domains of educational policy and mathematics education research. Educational policy is chosen as this study is set within the New Labour (1997-2010) neoliberal era of marketization, accountability and performativity. Mathematics education research is chosen as this knowledge often circulates unproblematically and with taken-for-granted ‘truths’. In addition, in my role as a university teaching fellow, I had noticed that these discourses were dominant and offered conflict. To explore my research question, I carried out a case study of six student-teachers over the period of their three year degree course. I analysed their talk in relation to dominant discourses of mathematics education from within educational policy and mathematics education research. In order to unpack the truths that circulate, I stepped outside ‘enlightened’ epistemologies and instead, use a poststructural Foucauldian approach. This questions language and contends that meaning is produced within discourses. Furthermore, using Foucault, I contend that subjects become products of normalisation through governance rather than authoritarianism. Overall, I argue that the mathematical child in much of mathematics education research and educational policy is absent yet present. This position of the mathematical child covertly underlies much of the discussions concerning the teaching and learning of mathematics. However, although the mathematical child is rarely spoken about, they are produced through discourses as a normalised cognitive performance of the mathematics classroom. Specifically, in New Labour’s educational policy the mathematical child is produced as functional, and often indistinguishable from a mechanical automaton. Whilst in much of mathematics education research the mathematical child is naturally mathematically curious; what I call ‘romantic’. This is produced through simplistic interpretations of discourses such as understanding, confidence and progress, which (inadvertently) normalise a discourse of ‘natural ability’. Within this, the student-teachers take on various aspects of discourses – such as ‘natural ability’ and normative progress - and ignore others, such as mathematics for all. This happens as the children the student-teachers meet, are neither functional, naturally curious, nor normative in their behaviour. It is this mismatch of expectation and experience that includes some, such as the naturally able, within mathematics and excludes others.
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Nagy, Beth. "Are Planning Students Becoming Transformational Leaders?" University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337362968.
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Barnett, Max D. "Assisting university students in becoming lifelong disciplemakers." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p054-0249.
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Wayte, Gillian Ruth. "Becoming an artist : the professional socialisation of students." Thesis, University of Bristol, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.330078.
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Butcher, Daniel. "'Figuring and becoming' : developing identities among beginning nursing students." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2017. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/571df309-5032-47e6-9df4-e2869db4b19a/1/.
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The contemporary professional context of initial nurse preparation is characterised by multiple and sometimes competing social and historical discourses. It is in this context that beginning nursing students take their early steps on the road to developing identities that will shape their future practice and continued professional development. Unlike much of the existing nursing literature, the study adopts a post-modern perspective towards the nature of identity. Here it is conceived as a relational concept, dynamic and continuously evolving through the production and performance of narratives of experience embedded in cultural and social environments. This thesis examines, in detail, the stories told by five pre-registration nursing students at points throughout the first year of their undergraduate education with the aim of exploring how emergent professional identities are constructed. The study is grounded in the social constructivist approach that recognises the impact of distinct cultural contexts and foregrounds the embodied processes of meaning-making and agency in the negotiation of identity. The study seeks to honour the voices of students in this process. Data was gathered through a series of one-to-one meetings with each participant and supplemented with occasional audio diary recordings and the personal statements used to support their pre-course application. The narrative structure and content of 110 bounded stories were analysed using a multi-dimensional approach designed to reveal the changing identity claims made by individuals. This thesis contributes to understanding of professional identity development in a number of ways. It demonstrates that nursing students begin their nurse preparation with pre-existing and rudimentary images of the profession that serve as frameworks for their interpretation of early clinical and education experiences. Beginning nursing students improvise their identities, telling tales to audiences that include themselves, at the intersection between the Figured Worlds of practice and education. This represents an arena where they author their present and future selves, using individualised and unique stories to buffer conflicts and establish affiliations. Each participant created a rich and detailed compendium of stories that served to positively represent themselves and ‘tell’ themselves into nursing. This small scale study reveals the significant and often untapped potential of nursing students’ stories to establish understanding of identity development. As such they are under-utilised educational and developmental tools that have significant potential for enhancing nurse education.
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Walls, Bethany M. "Becoming a chemist graduate students' perspectives on chemists and chemistry /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1233080675/.
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Poisson, Émilie. "Construction et évolution du devenir élève chez les enfants de grande section d'école maternelle : approche écologique du rôle de l’implication parentale dans la vie éducative à l’école et au domicile." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Bordeaux, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023BORD0473.
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L’existence de liens entre l’implication parentale, – processus multidimensionnel qui renvoie à l’engagement, par les parents, de pratiques éducatives dans l’école et à l’extérieur de l’école pour promouvoir les apprentissages, le développement socio-affectif et l’expérience positive de l’enfant à l’école – et le développement de l’enfant à l’école est communément affirmée en psychologie de l’éducation (Barger et al., 2019 ; Ma et al., 2016) et cohérente avec une perspective psycho-développementale et contextuelle (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 1996 ; Malrieu et Malrieu, 1973). Pour autant, peu d’études examinent le lien entre l’implication parentale et l’ensemble des composantes académique, socio-affective et expérientielle du Devenir Élève – processus psycho-social et culturel se développant dans et par les relations interpersonnelles au sein de différents contextes et permettant le développement d’expériences scolaires singulières. Il est le reflet de l’appropriation par l’enfant des attentes et normes scolaires, lesquelles évoluent avec l’avancée dans le parcours scolaire–. En outre, ces études portent peu sur les enfants âgés de 5-6 ans, et ne considèrent pas l’évolution du contexte sociétal ni la dynamique du lien entre l’implication parentale et le Devenir Élève à l’approche du Cours Préparatoire. L’objet de cette thèse est de proposer une étude holistique du Devenir Élève et de l’implication parentale chez les enfants de Grande Section d’école maternelle (GSM) en contexte culturel français. Il s’agit, (1) d’élaborer des outils de mesure adaptés à l’étude des différentes dimensions du Devenir Élève et de l’implication parentale (objectif 1), (2) d’examiner, dans une perspective longitudinale, psycho-développementale et contextuelle, le Devenir Élève (objectif 2), l’implication parentale (objectif 3) et les liens quantitatifs (objectif 4) et qualitatifs (objectif 5) entre leurs différentes composantes/dimensions. Pour répondre à ces objectifs, les enseignant.e.s de GSM de 19 écoles ont répondu à un questionnaire sur le Devenir Élève à trois reprises (début, milieu et fin d’année scolaire) pour chaque enfant dont les familles avaient accepté de participer. En parallèle, ces familles (202 au total, issues de milieux socio-économiques contrastés) ont répondu à un questionnaire sur l’implication parentale aux trois mêmes périodes. Parmi elles, quelques parents et leurs enfants ont aussi été rencontrés en entretien individuel pour répondre au versant qualitatif de cette étude. Sur la base des questionnaires validés, les analyses en profils latents permettent d’identifier des profils de Devenir Élève et d’implication parentale. En nombre variable selon la période de l’année scolaire, les profils de Devenir Élève se distinguent majoritairement entre eux, à chaque temps, en termes de niveau moyen des élèves. Les profils d’implication parentale, aussi en nombre variable selon la période, se distinguent davantage sur la base de pratiques de nature différente. Pour le Devenir Élève comme pour l’implication parentale, l’appartenance à certains profils est prédite par certaines variables socio-démographiques. Ces prédictions varient en fonction du temps donné. Réalisés en suivant, les analyses en Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models documentent, les liens bi-directionnels existants entre l’implication parentale et le Devenir Élève. Les tailles d’effets, bien que souvent faibles, et leur valence, positive ou négative, dépendent des dimensions/composantes incluses dans le modèle. Enfin, les vignettes cliniques illustrent la singularité des rapports à l’école des parents et de l’expérience scolaire des enfants. Elles permettent ainsi d’examiner la part active des personnes pour appréhender les liens entre implication parentale et Devenir ÉlèveThe existence of links between parental involvement, – a multi-dimensional process that involves parents engaging in educational practices inside and outside school to promote learning, socio-affective development and the child's positive experience of school – and children's development at school is commonly asserted in educational psychology (Barger & al., 2019; Ma & al., 2016) and consistent with a psycho-developmental and contextual perspective (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 1996; Malrieu & Malrieu, 1973). However, few studies simultaneously investigate the link between parental involvement and all the academic, socio-affective and experiential components of Becoming Student – a psycho-social and cultural process that develops in and through interpersonal relationships within different contexts, and enables the development of unique school experiences. It reflects the child's appropriation of school expectations and norms, which evolve as he or she progresses through the school system–. Moreover, these studies focus rarely on 5-6 year-olds, and do not consider the evolution of the societal context or the dynamics of the link between parental involvement and Becoming Student as children approach the elementary school. The aim of this thesis is to propose a holistic study of Becoming Student and parental involvement in nursery school children in a French cultural context. The aim is (1) to develop measurement tools adapted to the study of the different dimensions of Becoming Student and parental involvement (objective 1), (2) to examine, from a longitudinal, psycho-developmental and contextual perspective, Becoming Student (objective 2), parental involvement (objective 3) and the quantitative (objective 4) and qualitative (objective 5) links between their different components/dimensions. To achieve these objectives, nursery schoolteachers of 5–6-year-olds in 19 schools completed a Becoming Student questionnaire on three occasions (at the beginning, middle and end of the school year) for each child whose family had agreed to participate. At the same time, these families (202, from contrasting socio-economic backgrounds) completed a questionnaire on parental involvement at the same three times. A few parents and their children were also interviewed on a one-to-one basis for the qualitative aspect of the study. Based on validated questionnaires, latent profile analyses enable us to identify Becoming Student and parental involvement profiles. The number of Becoming Student profiles varies according to the time of year. At each time of year, the Becoming Student profiles are mostly distinct from one another in terms of average student level. Parental involvement profiles, which also vary in number depending on the period, are distinguished more by the nature of their practices at each time of year. For Becoming Student, as for parental involvement, belonging to specific profiles is predicted by specific socio-demographic variables. These predictions vary with time. Next, analyses with Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models document the bi-directional links between parental involvement and Becoming Student. Effect sizes, though often small, and their valence, positive or negative, depend on the dimensions/components included in the model. Finally, the illustrated cases show the uniqueness of parents' relationships with school and their children's school experience. They allow us to examine the active role played by individuals in understanding the links between parental involvement and Becoming Student
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Williams, Lee Ann. "Nursing Candidates' Perceptions of the Greatest Challenges to Becoming a Professional Nurse." ScholarWorks, 2018. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/5960.
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Nursing candidates' overall goal is to become a professional nurse. To reach this goal, the student must graduate from an associate or baccalaureate nursing program and pass the state board, National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX). Student retention in nursing programs and passing the NCLEX continue to be a problem for educational institutions throughout the United States. The purpose of this study was to examine nursing candidates' perceptions of their greatest challenges in becoming a professional nurse. Wenger's social learning systems and the community of practice comprised the conceptual framework that guided this study. The research questions pertained to nursing students' perceptions regarding the greatest challenges of becoming a professional nurse, strategies that could have helped the students, and the challenges that could be addressed by the nursing program. For this qualitative case study, nursing students from a second year Associate Degree in Nursing (ADN) program and nursing students in their last semester of a License Practical Nurse (LPN) program in North Georgia were asked to participate by attending focus group interviews. Twelve of the second year ADN program students volunteered to participate and 5 of the students in the last semester of the LPN program volunteered to participate. The data was collected from focus group interviews, and an inductive process was done for the data analysis. The findings revealed four challenges to becoming a professional nurse: family/relationship, lack of time, curriculum, and prior knowledge or skill. Insights from the analysis may enhance the institutions' understanding of the barriers faced by nursing students in North Georgia, the nursing program, the nursing profession, and help develop strategies to identify and support at-risk students.
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Hamilton, Susan Elizabeth. "Accounting for identity : becoming a chartered accountant." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/127.
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This is a qualitative study which draws on the interpretivist tradition to research the processes by which Chartered Accountant (CA) students begin to develop their sense of professional identity. The thesis draws upon recent research on identity in early professional learning, in particular the aspects of becoming and belonging through which people enter into a community of practice. The purpose of the research is to understand the developing professional identity of students of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (CA Students). In order to develop this understanding, data gathered at a number of focus groups at which CA Students were the participants, have been analysed. The transcripts from these focus groups are the primary source of data. This was analysed thematically and metaphorically in order to explore the senses that CA Students were making of their own entry into the accountancy profession. The analysis was used inductively to produce a resulting theory which has developed as a Professional Identity Map of the CA Student (PIMCAS). It elaborates the processes that impact on the developing professional identity of the CA Student. The findings of the research illuminate the processes by which CA Students become and belong, in particular marking the influence of the Training Firm and the Individual Values of the CA Student. The notions of becoming and belonging underpin the stories the CA Students tell of how they understand their developing professional identity. The practical implication of the results of this research for the future training of CAs is finally explored.
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Lee, Mei-sheung. "Becoming multilingual a study of South Asian students in a Hong Kong secondary school /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36753269.