Learning experience and academic identity building by master's students in Hong Kong

Learning experience and academic identity building by master's students in Hong Kong

• Jung, Jisun The University of Hong Kong

Studies in Higher Education, (0), - , 2019

Routledge

2019

• N Students & Student Services
  • NC Charactieristics & Conditions of Students; Opinion & Attitudes of Students, Problems of Adjustment
• Q Philosophy of Education, Educational System & School At Different Levels
  • QE Post-Secondary Education

Master's Education Academic Identity Academic Career Community of Practice

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

This study explores how master's students perceive their learning experiences and build their identities as postgraduate learners. It also investigates how these students' perceptions affect their aspirations regarding academic careers. By applying the Community of Practice (CoP) framework, this study focuses on three dimensions of master's students' experience; community, practice and identity. Seventy master's students from one research-intensive university in Hong Kong were interviewed regarding motivations for doing a master's degree and reflections on learning. The interview results showed that master's students build their communities partly around shared academic interests. However, the boundaries of these communities are loose and flexible, due to the nature of master's programmes with their short periods of study and large numbers of part-time students. The study also showed how master's students develop their knowledge and skills through doing research and how they evaluate the prospect of becoming an academic.
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• English

Journal Articles

• 03075079

• 10.1080/03075079.2019.1652811

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/bibs/377f7f71

2020-08-26