Aspects of graduateness in computing students' narratives
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Department
Computer Science
Conference Title
ICER 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research
Organization
Association for Computing Machinery
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Conference Dates
September 8-12, 2016
Date of Presentation
9-8-2016
Abstract
In this paper, we explore graduates' characterisations of their learning experiences at university and beyond. Using a narrative methodology, we elicited life stories from graduates of the School of Computing at the University of Kent. We initially review and situate our approach within the wide variety of existing narrative approaches. Then, we turn to an aspect of the student experience that struck us as particularly significant: the "year in industry". We discuss the accounts of ten participants who completed a year in industry and highlight their perspectives of the effect it had on them. Finally, we propose a narrative construction of the concept of graduateness - of what it means to complete a university degree.
First Page
181
Last Page
190
DOI
10.1145/2960310.2960317
Recommended Citation
Dziallas, S.,
&
Fincher, S.
(2016).
Aspects of graduateness in computing students' narratives.
Paper presented at ICER 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research in Melbourne, Australia.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/soecs-facpres/613
