Adult Student Identity in an Intergenerational Community College Classroom

By Carol E. Kasworm. 2005

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Subfields: Communication, Education

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Citations in the corpus

• Adult Learners in a Research University: Negotiating Undergraduate Student Identity (2010, background): “Unlike earlier studies of adults in adult degree programs or in community colleges with a strong open access and adult learner presence (Kasworm, 2003b, 2005), these adult students held more complex and multilayered understandings.”
• Emotional challenges of adult learners in higher education (2008, background): “Research suggests that many adult learners experience significant anxiety and self-consciousness about their acceptance, place in a collegiate environment, and ability to perform as undergraduate students (Kasworm, 2005, 2006).”
• Factors Influencing Persistence Among Nontraditional University Students (2015, background): “Many of these women returned to school to fulfill a dream they deferred in order to care for others, finally taking “their turn” to pursue their goals (Kasworm, 2005; Reay et al., 2002; Vaccaro & Lovell, 2010).”