You’ve Got to Put Your Stamp on Things: A Rippling Story of Success
| Autor: | Robyn Ober, Jack Frawley |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Government
Persuasion Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Principal (computer security) Equity (finance) 050401 social sciences methods 050301 education Public relations medicine.disease Indigenous 0504 sociology medicine Narrative Attrition Sociology business 0503 education media_common |
| Zdroj: | Indigenous Pathways, Transitions and Participation in Higher Education ISBN: 9789811040610 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-981-10-4062-7_6 |
| Popis: | This chapter addresses Indigenous student equity in higher education by focussing on a narrative account of one Indigenous student’s successful transition into and completion of higher education studies. Throughout Australia, there have been many ‘small successes’ of Indigenous individuals who have completed higher education, but these stories are largely absent from the literature. There has, instead, been a strong focus on the barriers and challenges to Indigenous participation, and the high attrition rate. In a recent report, ‘“Can’t be what you can’t see”: the transition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students into higher education’, it was stated that success exists on a spectrum defined by individual and collective terms, as well as a range of measures utilised by universities and government departments. Success was viewed not so much as measured outcomes but more as a ‘ripple effect of many small successes’. Research shows that to attain a sense of success requires a high level of self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is not created by easy success; it requires experience in overcoming obstacles and challenging situations through maintained effort and persistence. Self-efficacy is informed by four principal sources: performance accomplishments, modelling, verbal persuasion, and physiological states. Each of these sources provides rich themes for personal narratives of success. |
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