Bridging socio-cultural incongruity: conceptualising the success of students from low socio-economic status backgrounds in Australian higher education
- Authors: Devlin, Marcia
- Date: 2013
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Studies in Higher Education Vol. 38, no. 6 (2013), p. 939-949
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- Description: This article examines the conceptual frames that might be used to consider the success and achievement of students from low socio-economic status in Australian higher education. Based on an examination of key literature from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and North America, it is argued that Australia should avoid adopting either a deficit conception of students from low socio-economic backgrounds or a deficit conception of the institutions into which they will move. Further, rather than it being the primary responsibility of the student or of the institution to change to ensure the success of these students, it is argued that the adjustments necessary to ensure achievement for students from low socio-economic backgrounds in Australian higher education would be most usefully conceptualised as a ‘joint venture’ toward bridging socio-cultural incongruity.
Research challenges inherent in determining improvement in University teaching
- Authors: Devlin, Marcia
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Journal article
- Relation: Issues in Educational Research Vol. 18, no. n1 (2008), p. 12-25
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- Description: Using a recent study that examined the effectiveness of a particular approach to improving individual university teaching as a case study, this paper examines some of the challenges inherent in educational research, particularly research examining the effects of interventions to improve teaching. Aspects of the research design and methodology and of the analysis of results are discussed and recommendations for improvements for future research are made. (Contains 1 table.)
Participation and equity : a review of the participation in higher education of people from low socioeconomic backgrounds and Indigenous people.
- Authors: James, Richard , Bexley, E. , Anderson, A. , Devlin, Marcia , Garnett, R. , Marginson, S. , Maxwell, L.
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Book
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