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Article: Learning experience and academic identity building by master's students in Hong Kong
Title | Learning experience and academic identity building by master's students in Hong Kong |
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Authors | |
Keywords | Master’s education academic identity academic career community of practice Hong Kong |
Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03075079.asp |
Citation | Studies in Higher Education, 2021, v. 46 n. 4, p. 782-795 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This study explores how master's students perceive their learning experiences and build their identities as postgraduate learners. It also investigates how these students’ perceptions affect their aspirations regarding academic careers. By applying the Community of Practice (CoP) framework, this study focuses on three dimensions of master's students’ experience; community, practice and identity. Seventy master's students from one research-intensive university in Hong Kong were interviewed regarding motivations for doing a master's degree and reflections on learning. The interview results showed that master's students build their communities partly around shared academic interests. However, the boundaries of these communities are loose and flexible, due to the nature of master's programmes with their short periods of study and large numbers of part-time students. The study also showed how master's students develop their knowledge and skills through doing research and how they evaluate the prospect of becoming an academic. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/304320 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.614 |
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dc.contributor.author | Jung, J | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-09-23T08:58:23Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-09-23T08:58:23Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Studies in Higher Education, 2021, v. 46 n. 4, p. 782-795 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0307-5079 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/304320 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study explores how master's students perceive their learning experiences and build their identities as postgraduate learners. It also investigates how these students’ perceptions affect their aspirations regarding academic careers. By applying the Community of Practice (CoP) framework, this study focuses on three dimensions of master's students’ experience; community, practice and identity. Seventy master's students from one research-intensive university in Hong Kong were interviewed regarding motivations for doing a master's degree and reflections on learning. The interview results showed that master's students build their communities partly around shared academic interests. However, the boundaries of these communities are loose and flexible, due to the nature of master's programmes with their short periods of study and large numbers of part-time students. The study also showed how master's students develop their knowledge and skills through doing research and how they evaluate the prospect of becoming an academic. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03075079.asp | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Studies in Higher Education | - |
dc.rights | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in [JOURNAL TITLE] on [date of publication], available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/[Article DOI]. | - |
dc.subject | Master’s education | - |
dc.subject | academic identity | - |
dc.subject | academic career | - |
dc.subject | community of practice | - |
dc.subject | Hong Kong | - |
dc.title | Learning experience and academic identity building by master's students in Hong Kong | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Jung, J: jisun@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Jung, J=rp02095 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/03075079.2019.1652811 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85070900201 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 325392 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 46 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 782 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 795 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000481180100001 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |