understanding gaps between student and staff perceptions of university study in south africa: a case study
Clicks: 38
ID: 230773
2016
Article Quality & Performance Metrics
Overall Quality
Not rated
Combines reader engagement with the AI quality analysis. This
article has not been analysed, so there is no overall score —
reader engagement is measured and shown alongside.
Reader Engagement
Emerging Content
11.1
/100
38 views
18 readers
AI Quality Assessment
Not analyzed
Readership in this journal
EmergingRanked #32 of 32 articles by views in bioresources
Most read
Least read
Bar heights use a square-root scale.
Mint this article as an NFT
Not yet mintedCreate a permanent, verifiable on-chain record of this article on the Scimatic Network. The NFT is held in your Journament account, and you can withdraw it to your own wallet at any time.
5
SUSD
one-off · no wallet required
Abstract
“Under-preparedness” of students entering higher education is an issue that many academic
institutions in South Africa are currently trying to address. Such students are seen as disadvantaged,
lacking the skills, knowledge and/or language proficiency to navigate their way to success in higher
education. This paper seeks to identify students’ understanding of the behaviour they should display
in higher education and how this clashes with the expectations of academics, through the lenses of
different discourses and academic literacy models. Specifically, the focus is on how students try to engage
with the institutional discourse and how they try to identify a “sense of being” through a case study
of the Extended Curriculum Programme in Nature Conservation at the Cape Peninsula University
of Technology. Here, qualitative research was used through the administration of student essays, as well
as individual face-to-face interviews. Lecturers were also interviewed so that a comparison could be
made between what students perceive and the expectations of higher education. Different themes were
identified through the analysis of the data, using an inductive approach; by developing the themes, the
gaps are better identified and analysed with a view to redress.
| Reference Key |
jaffer2016journalunderstanding
Use this key to autocite in the manuscript while using
SciMatic Manuscript Manager or Thesis Manager
|
|---|---|
| Authors | ;Faeeqa Jaffer;James Garraway |
| Journal | bioresources |
| Year | 2016 |
| DOI |
10.14426/jsaa.v4i1.145
|
| URL | |
| Keywords |
Citations
No citations found. To add a citation, contact the admin at info@scimatic.org
Comments
No comments yet. Be the first to comment on this article.