Bangeni, B. & Kapp, R. (Eds.). (2017). Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Retention. London: Bloomsbury

Abstract

Negotiating Learning and Identity in Higher Education: Access, Persistence and Retention is the first in a Bloomsbury series, entitled “Understanding Student Experiences in Higher Education”. It consists of nine chapters, all of which report on research that was conducted using qualitative, longitudinal data at the University of Cape Town (UCT) – an elite, English-medium, and historically white South African University. The participants in the research are all part of a generation of young black people who have grown up in the new South Africa and are mostly first generation, working class and from single-parent families. In addition to this, they are all bilingual or multilingual and English is generally used as a second or third language.