• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The experience of students in vulnerable contexts in different University Higher Education institutions (IESU, by the spanish acronym): Research outcomes. La experiencia de estudiantes de contextos vulnerables en diferentes instituciones de Educación Superior Universitaria (IESU): Resultados de investigación
  • Contributor: Leyton, Daniel; Vásquez, Alba; Fuenzalida, Valentina
  • Published: Consejo Nacional de Educacion, 2012
  • Published in: Calidad en la Educación (2012) 37, Seite 61-97
  • Language: Not determined
  • DOI: 10.31619/caledu.n37.87
  • ISSN: 0718-4565; 0717-4004
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  • Description: This paper presents the main results of a study about students' experiences in social and academic integration in 4 different types of universities. Results are based primarily in 29 interviews to students from vulnerable social backgrounds. The main findings show that in the elite university it dominates a declass experience as an integration strategy marked by denying social origins. In the academic and non-academic multi-class universities, the experiences are featured by social closure along with positive perception of social heterogeneity. In turn, in the academic multi-class university, high academic integration is expressed in their commitments and transformations of their study practices. Finally, at the lower-class university, there are precarious levels of social and academic integration despite the existing class identity among students.
  • Access State: Open Access