Identity Struggles of Adult Returners

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ROZVADSKÁ Katarína

Rok publikování 2020
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj Studia paedagogica
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

Filozofická fakulta

Citace
www http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/143459
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/SP2020-4-9
Klíčová slova adult returners; drop-out; higher education; narratives; identity struggles; adult learner identities
Přiložené soubory
Popis This article addresses a perceived gap in higher education literature: there is very little writing that successfully combines the issues of individual learners who dropped out and then returned to higher education – the adult returners. To address this problem, the article draws upon data from the qualitative part of a larger research project that deals with non-traditional students in the Czech Republic. This article analyzes data from eight subjects with drop-out experience chosen from the initial corpus of thirty non-traditional students. The results indicate that adult learners have to deal with three central identities and with potential identity struggles as they interact: student identity, work identity, and familial identity. The final result of the interaction between these identities can be either the integration or the disintegration of identities, whereby one of the possible consequences of identity disintegration is to drop out from higher education.
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