On Returning to School: Adults' Lived Experiences

Authors

  • Karyn Cooper University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v29i3.52402

Abstract

In this paper, I use a phenomenological and hermeneutic approach to explore the lived experience of graduate students returning to school. The paper begins with a reflexive narrative in which I connect adults' experience of graduate school with children' s experience of elementary school. The paper then reports on some of the research interviews I conducted with 30 graduate students. I interlace direct quotations from the interviews with my interpretations of the students' experiences. I argue that the boundaries between child learner and adult learner are socially constructed and not ontological.

Published

2018-05-17

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