‘Don’t let anyone bring me down again’: applying ‘possible selves’ to understanding persistence of mature-age first-in-family students.

‘Don’t let anyone bring me down again’: applying ‘possible selves’ to understanding persistence of mature-age first-in-family students.

This article applies the framework of possible selves to the motivation and persistence behaviours of one group of university students. We draw on possible selves to consider how particular goal-focused actions and life experiences may significantly shape movements towards imagined futures. Utilisin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Delahunty, Janine, O'Shea, Sarah
Format: Journal Article
Published: Taylor & Francis 2020
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170100705
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79881

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