Stepping back to move forward? Exploring Outdoor Education students' fresher and graduate identities and their impact on employment destinations

Tim Stott; Elena Zaitseva; Vanessa Cui

doi:10.1080/03075079.2012.743116

Stepping back to move forward? Exploring Outdoor Education students' fresher and graduate identities and their impact on employment destinations

Tim Stott^*, Elena Zaitseva, Vanessa Cui

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Liverpool John Moores University

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Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	711-733
Number of pages	23
Journal	Studies in Higher Education
Volume	39
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2012.743116
Publication status	Published (VoR) - May 2014

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Building on Holmes’s ideas of graduate identity and considering the contextual, multifaceted and developmental nature of graduate employability (Harvey 2003; Tom-linson 2008), and a preliminary investigation (Boorman et al. 2008), this study examines fresher identity and graduate identity on an Outdoor Education (OE) degree programme and attempts to link these with graduates’ employment destinations as an indicator of graduates’ employability. By using longitudinal quantitative data gathered via induction and graduation questionnaires between 2006 and 2010, as part of a Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) project, as well as qualitative interviews with final-year OE students, collected as part of a National Teaching Fellowship (NTF) project, this study will:

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employability
employment destinations
fresher identity
graduate identity; higher education
outdoor education

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