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Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-77).

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Main Author: Gunston, Geney
Other Authors: Paxton, Moragh
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: School of Education 2014
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spelling oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10557 Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester Gunston, Geney Paxton, Moragh Higher Education Studies Includes bibliographical references (leaves 72-77). This qualitative study was conducted during 2005 in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. Drawing on the theoretical framework of the New Literacy Studies and, in particular, Gee's notion of Discourse acquisition, I sought to better understand the issues that impacted on success for students from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds who entered the MBChB programme. 2014-12-30T06:50:29Z 2014-12-30T06:50:29Z 2008 Master Thesis Masters MEd http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10557 eng application/pdf School of Education Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town
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Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester
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title Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester
title_full Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester
title_fullStr Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester
title_full_unstemmed Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester
title_short Understanding the experiences of students who enter the MBChB programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester
title_sort understanding the experiences of students who enter the mbchb programme from educationally disadvantaged backgrounds and either succeed or fail in passing the first semester
topic Higher Education Studies
url http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10557
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