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 學生與學生服務
  • NC 學生特徵和境況；學生意見與態度、學生適應問題
• Q 教育體系與各級學校
  • QE 專上教育

Master's Education Academic Identity Academic Career Community of Practice

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• 專上教育

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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• 英文

期刊論文

• 03075079

• 10.1080/03075079.2019.1652811

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

2020-08-26