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Erdmann, Nina et al. 2018. Students as educational architects. Final report of the research project "Education and Diversity - Discovering and shaping diverse life situations at Faculty 01 (Architecture)".
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In this study, study decisions and study courses were examined from the perspective of architecture students at Fachhochschule Dortmund. It is shown that subject-cultural socialization and heterogeneity characteristics of students influence each other, but that traditional characteristics of social inequality tend to be of secondary importance. Student heterogeneity is characterized by dimensions of differentiation that can only supposedly be subsumed under characteristics such as "gender", "migration history", "non-traditional students" or similar categories. Instead, four guiding orientations can be traced on the basis of the data collected: (1) Academic identification, (2) Pragmatic emancipation, (3) Ambivalent commitment, (4) Creative self-realization. This typology unfolds between the poles of cooperation and competition as a professional cultural bracket of architecture. Within these orientations, different modes of coping can also be reconstructed, which range between adapted-affirmative and constructive-critical study behavior.
Keywords
university research,qualitativemethod,architecture,social sciences,study
University socialization
Diversity research
Professional culture
Study practice
Study decision