{"id":1556,"date":"2024-10-18T09:50:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T09:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2024-10-18T10:29:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T10:29:58","slug":"16-05-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/2024\/10\/18\/16-05-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"16\/05\/2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Support (and rejection) of\u00a0meritocracy\u00a0as a self-enhancement identity strategy: A qualitative study of university students\u2019 perceptions about\u00a0meritocracy\u00a0in higher education<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Daniela Paz Fernandez (George Washington University)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Access to Higher Education (HE) is based on the idea that all students should have the same opportunities, and that merit and hard work, regardless of students\u2019 back- grounds, will lead to success. However, inequalities remain despite efforts to provide equal access to HE, raising questions about the validity of such a\u00a0meritocratic\u00a0approach. Using qualitative analysis, we interviewed UK university students to understand students\u2019 perceptions of\u00a0meritocracy\u00a0in HE, and if and how students associated these perceptions with their gender and SES identity experiences. Students\u2019 perceptions could be described in two main ideas: (a) the perceived commitment of their universities to\u00a0meritocracy, and (b) their endorsement and rejection of\u00a0meritocracy\u00a0as an identity enhancement strategy. Hence, both support and lack of support for\u00a0meritocracy\u00a0are strategies used by disadvantaged groups to navigate and cope with the lack of opportunities and socioeconomic disadvantages in HE. Indeed, the lack of support for\u00a0meritocracy\u00a0as an identity strategy was mainly discussed by female low SES students.<br><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support (and rejection) of\u00a0meritocracy\u00a0as a self-enhancement identity strategy: A qualitative study of university students\u2019 perceptions about\u00a0meritocracy\u00a0in higher education &#8211; Daniela Paz Fernandez (George Washington University)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1601,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/specolab.psy.unipd.it\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}