INVESTIGADORES
SANTOS SHARPE AndrÉs Ignacio
artículos
Título:
"Mine is an Atypical Case": An Analysis of Life Stories about the Experience of Higher Education Drop-Out
Autor/es:
SANTOS SHARPE, ANDRÉS
Revista:
International Journal of Higher Education
Editorial:
Sciedu Press
Referencias:
Lugar: Ontario; Año: 2019 vol. 8 p. 144 - 156
ISSN:
1927-6044
Resumen:
This paper is derived from a field study in the framework of my doctoral dissertation, in which we analyze lifestories (Bertaux, 2005) of young people who have discontinued their studies at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA)in four courses with a high rate of dropout between the years 2005-2015: Computer Engineering, AnthropologicalSciences, Chemical Sciences and Communication Sciences. With that goal in mind, seventy-five interviews wereconducted with fifty-nine people: sixteen key informants and forty-three young people who discontinued theiruniversity studies between 2005 and 2015.In this paper we present one aspect of the analysis: the reconstruction of the symbolic framework of thediscontinuation experience from the perspective of its protagonist, and how this outlines specific types ofdiscontinuation.
