• Original Higher Education Experience of Graduating Students of Mathematics Education in Nigeria: An Autoethnographic Approach

    Author(s):
    Joshua Abah ABAH (see profile)
    Date:
    2017
    Subject(s):
    Education, Ethnology--Fieldwork, Mathematical sociology
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Autoethnography, Higher education, Mathematics Education, Nigeria, School Experience, Ethnographic fieldwork
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6C53D
    Abstract:
    In the face of bizarre challenges, many Nigerian higher education students are surviving out of sure doggedness and determination to succeed. Out of improvisation, deprivation and sheer hard work, many students have attained graduation with outstanding qualities. This study employs autoethnography to report the author’s personal narrative of graduating in mathematics education in a public university in Nigeria. Reflective writings from three graduating students of mathematics education added voices to the autoethnography. Emerging themes deduced from the reports indicate a general mixed expectation for higher education, Students’ tenacity in the face of a tense school climate, and a productive social interaction as constituting broad experience of graduating students of mathematics education in Nigeria.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.11648/j.edu.20170606.13
    Publisher:
    Science Publishing Group, USA
    Pub. Date:
    24th November, 2017
    Journal:
    Education Journal
    Volume:
    6
    Issue:
    6
    Page Range:
    177 - 187
    ISSN:
    2327-2619
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All-Rights-Granted
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