Trialling a 4th Generation Approach to the First Year Experience: The CommUniTI

Sharn Donnison; S Penn-Edwards; Ruth Greenaway; Rosemary Horn

doi:10.5204/ssj.v8i1.361

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Trialling a 4th Generation Approach to the First Year Experience: The CommUniTI

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Trialling a 4th Generation Approach to the First Year Experience: The CommUniTI

Sharn Donnison, S Penn-Edwards, Ruth Greenaway and Rosemary Horn

Student Success, Vol.8(1), pp.63-72

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5204/ssj.v8i1.361

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Specialist Studies in Education

first year experience

transition

student engagement

student support

In 2014, we developed a new approach to supporting first year students' transition into higher education building on the work of Kift, Nelson, and Clarke (2010) whose 3rd Generation Approach is one of transition pedagogy foregrounded by a whole-of-institution transformation. Our 4th Generation Approach focuses on students' social capital and extends the remit beyond the institution. Our approach recognises students' social capital as an unexplored resource to be drawn upon to inform the membership of a Community of Practice (CoP). The CoP members collaboratively develop strategies to support the development of students' important cultural capital, which we consider essential for successful transition. In 2015, we trialled the 4th Generation Approach with a Queensland regional university satellite campus. This paper reports on the implementation of the CoP as one element of the 4th Generation Approach and the important refinements required for future success.

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Title: Trialling a 4th Generation Approach to the First Year Experience: The CommUniTI
Authors: Sharn Donnison (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
S Penn-Edwards (Author) - Griffith University
Ruth Greenaway (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Rosemary Horn (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Publication details: Student Success, Vol.8(1), pp.63-72
Publisher: Queensland University of Technology
Date published: 2017
DOI: 10.5204/ssj.v8i1.361
ISSN: 2205-0795
Organisation Unit: Centre for Support and Advancement of Learning and Teaching; School of Education - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99451184502621
Output Type: Journal article

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