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Connolly, Daniel J.; Allen-Collinson, Jacquelyn; Evans, Adam B. – Sport, Education and Society, 2016
There is currently a distinct dearth of research into how sports students' career aspirations are formed during their post-compulsory education. This article, based on an ethnographic study of sport students in tertiary education, draws on data collected from two first-year cohorts (n = 34) on two different courses at a further education college…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Occupational Aspiration, Ethnography, Observation
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Tett, Lyn; Cree, Viviene E; Christie, Hazel – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
This paper argues that transition is not a one-off event that occurs when students first enter universities but is an on-going process that is repeated over time. We draw on qualitative data from a longitudinal project on "non-traditional" students who entered a research-intensive university in Scotland direct from further education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Freshmen, Nontraditional Students, Research Universities