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Avoiding the manufacture of "sameness": First-in-family students, cultural capital and the higher ed...

Avoiding the manufacture of "sameness": First-in-family students, cultural capital and the higher ed...

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Avoiding the manufacture of "sameness": First-in-family students, cultural capital and the higher education environment

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Avoiding the manufacture of "sameness": First-in-family students, cultural capital and the higher education environment

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Dordrecht: Springer

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Higher education, 2016-07, Vol.72 (1), p.59-78

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English

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Dordrecht: Springer

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Drawing upon Bourdieu's theories of social and cultural capital, a number of studies of the higher education environment have indicated that students who are first-in-family to come to university may lack the necessary capitals to enact success. To address this issue, university transition strategies often have the primary objective of 'filling stu...

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Avoiding the manufacture of "sameness": First-in-family students, cultural capital and the higher education environment

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1794745453

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1794745453

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0018-1560

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1573-174X

DOI

10.1007/s10734-015-9938-y

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