Navigating through higher education: mature students in transition

• Author(s): Almeida, António Fragoso de ; Quintas, Helena ; Ribeiro, Carlos Miguel ; Monteiro, Rute ; Gonçalves, Teresa
• Date: 2011
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/4959
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Mature students; Higher education,; Expectations; Transitions; Biography
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Editor(s): Fonseca, Henrique; Bago, Joana; Santos, Lucilia

Description

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.