First-in-family learners and higher education : Negotiating the 'silences' of university transition and participation.

This article explores the experiences of students who are the first in their families to attend university. Building upon a decade of research in this field, the author describes the ways first-in-family learners engage and interact with higher education. Both the risky nature of this cohort's...

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Institution:	University of Wollongong
Prif Awdur:	O'Shea, Sarah
Cyhoeddwyd:	HERDSA Review of Higher Education v.3 p.5-23 2016
Pynciau:	Disadvantaged Diversity (Student) Equal education Generation gap Participation Secondary postsecondary transition Student engagement University attendance University bound students Higher education Narrative inquiry First in family students Intergenerational mobility Australia
Mynediad Ar-lein:	http://www.herdsa.org.au/system/files/HERDSARHE2016v03p05_0.pdf