Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: This paper is aimed to understand from a qualitative point of view the main determinants allowing vulnerable students to stay at university. The research found that more vulnerable students face numerous obstacles at the moment of entering into the higher education system: inadequate high school education, lack of resources or poor social capital to fit into the educational system, among others. Beyond these challenges, vulnerable students who successfully stay at the university system are provided with institutional and family support facilitating their educational development. Likewise, they have personal skills such as achievement orientation, self understanding and awareness about their own vulnerability.
Source: Calidad en la educación
Authors: Andrea Canales, Danae De los Ríos
Institution: Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W1536655610