TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the Lived Experience of the Contemporary College Student Through Photo Elicitation
AU - Legg, Eric
AU - McWilliams, Claire
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge students within the Arizona State School of Community Resources & Development who each day inspire us and challenge us to be better educators. As noted in this manuscript, many of our students juggle school with work responsibilities, while also committing their lives to bettering their communities. We would especially like to acknowledge the 21 students who participated in this research, and three students (Erika Karner, Barbara Mansfield, and Maryannai Soto) who took extra time to read both the interview transcripts and the manuscript and discuss their own views in relation to the researchers’ findings. This research would not be possible without the contribution of all of these students.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This research uses photo elicitation to examine the lived experience of the contemporary college student. Twenty-one participants took photographs of their college experience for a week, selected the five pictures that best represented their college experience, and then participated in a semi-structured interview to discuss the pictures. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed for themes. Findings suggest campus places, class and class activities, commuting, leisure activities, study space, and work as the most salient spaces (places and activities) of the contemporary college student experience. We also identified a life of service and purpose, school pride, relationships, stress relief, and “typical” as the most salient meanings ascribed those experiences. Findings also examine in what spaces meanings occur. These findings not only provide insight into the experience of the contemporary college student, but also lead to practical implications related to commuting, stress relief, study spaces, and integrating service activities into the classroom.
AB - This research uses photo elicitation to examine the lived experience of the contemporary college student. Twenty-one participants took photographs of their college experience for a week, selected the five pictures that best represented their college experience, and then participated in a semi-structured interview to discuss the pictures. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed for themes. Findings suggest campus places, class and class activities, commuting, leisure activities, study space, and work as the most salient spaces (places and activities) of the contemporary college student experience. We also identified a life of service and purpose, school pride, relationships, stress relief, and “typical” as the most salient meanings ascribed those experiences. Findings also examine in what spaces meanings occur. These findings not only provide insight into the experience of the contemporary college student, but also lead to practical implications related to commuting, stress relief, study spaces, and integrating service activities into the classroom.
KW - College student
KW - commuting
KW - photo elicitation
KW - service learning
KW - stress relief
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U2 - 10.1080/1937156X.2020.1760750
DO - 10.1080/1937156X.2020.1760750
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85140965163
SN - 1937-156X
VL - 36
SP - 59
EP - 74
JO - SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education
JF - SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education
IS - 1-2
ER -