First-generation students
What we ask, what we know and what it means: an international review of the state of research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12272051 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas Spiegler (,, corresponding author), Antje Bednarek (,) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 318-337 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Studies in Sociology of Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0962-0214 • E-ISSN: 1747-5066 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09620214.2013.815441 |
| OpenAlex | W2032606383 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 78 |
| References cited | 46 |
In the course of educational expansion, student populations have become more diverse. This paper represents an international literature review on the topic of first-generation students (FGS), i.e. students whose parents have not obtained a higher education qualification. On the basis of more than 70 research articles and reports on FGS from several countries, we find that the focal points in FGS research concern their pre-college characteristics, mobility factors, decisions about institution, degree and subjects, FGS’ experiences at university, and academic outcomes. Summarising the state of research on these topics, we point to two problems: (1) the international incommensurability of data on FGS due to differences in how FGS are defined and researched; (2) the depiction of FGS’ problems as individual rather than structural problems. We recommend that structural changes such as making organisational structures in higher education institutions more transparent are in order instead of offering special support programmes only for FGS
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Bildung und berufliche Souveränität. Gutachten
Studium als Balanceakt
Avoiding the manufacture of ‘sameness’
Sense of Belonging and Student Engagement
Shifting the blame in higher education – social inclusion and deficit discourses
Experiências na graduação da Unifesp
“What support systems exist for “first-generation students in Ghana's higher education?”
Exploring choices in higher education
Leveraging the strengths that first-generation students have to succeed in South African higher education
Mental Health and Mattering in UK University Students
First-Generation College Students and Family Support
From First to First
La biografia scolastica di Francisco
Access to higher education during Covid-19
First-in-Family students’ roots and routes into higher education
Exploring a low sense of social belonging in first-generation students in post-pandemic university in Austria
So close and yet so far
‘A little one among giants’
‘I don’t understand it’
Breaking Ground
Reframing first-generation entry
‘ Don’t let anyone bring me down again ’
Shape-shifting and pushing against the odds
On ‘being first’
‘Why can't people see or understand or make that effort to see who I am?’
Cultural capital and habitus in the field of higher education
Overcoming the Odds
Informational capital and the transition to university
The working classes and higher education
“Kids from here don't go to uni”
An intersectional perspective on disabled students’ experiences in German higher education
Degrees of “being first”
Resources and requirements of educational upward mobility
Older, online and first
“We’ve got a bit of a family mantra that you don’t give up”
What enables the “meritocratic power” of a college degree? Changing labor market outcomes of first-generation college graduates in post-revolution China
The role of student background characteristics and sense of belonging in the development of peer networks at the transition to higher education
Australian Social Work Students Balancing Study, Work, and Field Placement
Insights gained from a comparison of South African and Canadian first-generation students
Upward track mobility into academic upper secondary education
Persisting gaps
First-generation students’ educational outcomes
Moving Away from One's Origins
First-generation students in rural communities
Discourses of betterment and opportunity
Investigating the Relationship between Well-Being, Engagement and Learning Experiences among South African Publicly Funded Students in Higher Education
Exploring an alternative access route to higher education in South Africa
Inclusive Higher Education Access for Underrepresented Groups
I’m proud to say I was the first in my family to go to college”
First and continuing generation Jewish and Arab-Palestinian female students in Israeli peripheral college
How Teachers Balance Language Proficiency and Pedagogical Ideals at Universities in Indigenous and Postcolonial Societies
Positioning the self
From Mocks to Realities? A Case Study on the Social Impact of Mock Exams in University
First generation concept in the context of a Flemish university in Brussels – Europe
It was like navigating uncharted waters’
First-Generation College Students’ Motives to Start University Education
I never thought this could be for me”
Widening participation policy as practice
Filling up silences—first in family students, capital and university talk in the home
Raising retention rates towards achieving vocational and career aspirations in Pacific communities
Invisible vulnerability
Improving First-year Outcomes for First-generation Students
Crossing boundaries
Equality of opportunity for work experience? Computing students at two UK universities “play the game”
Upward Mobility of Students from Lower-educated Families in Stratified Educational Systems
The Experience of Low‐SES Students in Higher Education
The View from the Top
Resourcing Their Own Aspirations
The Necessity of Trust
Convertibility of Cultural Capital
Navigating Academic Identity
Investigating the Imagination of Possible and 'Like-to-Avoid' Selves among Higher Education Students from Different Socioeconomic Backgrounds at a Selective English University
The 'First Generation' in Historical Perspective
Angels falling from grace? The rectification experiences of middle-class community-college students in Hong Kong
Supporting students from equity groups
Staying local
The perceived inherent vice of working-class university students
How do personality traits affect the formation of friendship and preference-for-collaboration networks
Parias und Heldentöchter«
Bildungserfolge
First-Generation College Students
First-generation college students
A Longitudinal Approach to Assessing Attrition Behavior Among First-Generation Students
“Is that paper really due today?”
Disparitäten der Bildungsbeteiligung und des Kompetenzerwerbs
Family Capital
The Gap between Educational Aspirations and Attainment for First-Generation College Students and the Role of Parental Involvement
Comparing the Determinants of Persistence for First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Students
Bezugsgruppenwechsel und Bildungsaufstieg
Institutionelle Diskriminierung
Theorizing multidimensional identity negotiation
A theoretical concept of educational upward mobility
Integrated, marginal, and resilient
Breaking Away
University as vocational education
Classification' and 'Judgement
Cultural capital and academic achievement of first generation domestic and international students in Canadian universities
Giants among Us
Stories as Knowledge
College Readiness and Academic Preparation for Postsecondary Education
Studying Attrition and Degree Completion Behavior among First-Generation College Students in the United States
First-Generation College Students
First- and Second-Generation College Students
BildungsaufsteigerInnen aus benachteiligten Milieus
The Interactive Relationship Between Class Identity and the College Experience
A Useful Extension of Bourdieu's Conceptual Framework
Making It by Faking It
Strangers in Paradise
Becoming Middle Class
| Unique citing works | 78 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,57 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |