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Study Time: Temporal Orientations of Freshmen Students and Computing
Author(s) -
ANDERSON KENNETH T.,
MCCLARD ANNE PAGE
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1993.24.2.05x1120b
Subject(s) - residence , warrant , sociology , ethnography , point (geometry) , pedagogy , mathematics education , higher education , psychology , political science , law , anthropology , demography , geometry , mathematics , financial economics , economics
This article presents an ethnographic examination of the student domains of “study” and “time,” and how these domains relate to a technological innovation in a freshman residence hall. We argue that technological innovations in education warrant attention as part of the more general movement toward reform in higher education. We believe that a closer examination of student life is necessary before discussing effects of educational reform. In this article we point out some of the ways in which students' conceptions and configurations of time differ from those of others, including university administrators and professors, and the implication of their differing perspectives on the way they use personal computing facilities in a residence hall.