Exploring the Representations and Remixes of Underrepresented Students' Identities during their Transition to College

Exploring the Representations and Remixes of Underrepresented Students' Identities during their Transition to College

2012

The first-year college experience is a vibrant environment to study identity development and many college communities have responded to their students' challenges of entering, completing, and succeeding in college through the development of supportive transition programs, many of which focus on underrepresented student populations. In this study, I observed and interacted with students involved in the First-Year Interest Group (FIG) Representing Self Through Media in which they focused explicitly on issues of identity and representation to examine the influence of this pedagogical focus on identity development during the transition to college. The key features of the Representing Self Through Media course that facilitated identity development for students' transitioning to college included a small, close-knit class community and open classroom dialogue. There were multiple assignments, which integrated traditional and multimodal literacies, focused on issues of identity, including “che

Educational psychology

Higher education

College

Digital Media

Identity

Learning Community

Representation

Transition

Recollection Wisconsin

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