Students as Journeymen between Cultures of Higher Education and Work - A longitudinal European Study of the Transition from Higher Education to Work Life

The book reports on a longitudinal European resesrch project aiming at understanding how the transition between higher education and work life is experienced by the students. Informants are selected from a variety of study programs such as Psychology, Political science, Engineering and Law. The students are interviewed at the end of their studies and later after about one and a half year of work life experience. The aim is to describe and understand in what ways the studies have prepared the students for work life. The results indicate great differences between programs and also between the participating universities located in Sweden, Norway, Poland and Germany.

About the author

Lars Owe Dahlgren is professor of Education at the university of Linköping in Sweden. His research interests comprise higher education, student learning, problem based learning impact of education and the transition from higher education to work life. Together with colleagues he developed phenomenography as a research approach in the 1970ies.

Product details

• Authors: Lars Owe Dahlgren, Lars Owe Dahlgren (Ed ), Lars Owe Dahlgren (Ed., Lars Owe Dahlgren (Ed. )
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2010
• EAN: 9783838394626
• ISBN: 978-3-8383-9462-6
• No. of pages: 148
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 213 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries