Navigating through higher education: mature students in transition

• Autor(es): Almeida, António Fragoso de ; Quintas, Helena ; Ribeiro, Carlos Miguel ; Monteiro, Rute ; Gonçalves, Teresa
• Data: 2011
• Identificador Persistente: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4959
• Origem: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Assunto(s): Mature students; Higher education,; Expectations; Transitions; Biography
• Tipo de Documento: Documento de conferência
• Idioma: Inglês
• Editor(es): Fonseca, Henrique; Bago, Joana; Santos, Lucilia

Descrição

In our paper we are going to focus mature students close to 50 years old. We will present the results of two life histories co-constructed with these mature students, who have entered university in the year of 2010/2011. Our particular interest is to investigate how they have lived this very important transition to higher education.